I don't like the Conservative majority. Now I have to put up with Harper for four more years. Just great. I hope he actually bothers to listen to the other parties instead of ramming through whatever laws he sees fit.
I *LOVE* what happened in Quebec though. The Bloc Quebecois is dead as a political party. I'm not saying that sovereignty is dead - they can push that through the PQ and Marois has more power now - but it made absolutely no sense to have a federal party pushing that agenda and taking up real estate in the House of Commons. I don't think anyone called the NDP destroying everyone in Quebec, but...
Hm- if the Bloc Quebecois is dead as a federal party, that seems like a major re-alignment of Canadian politics. More majority governments in the future? (Note: I'm not Canadian)
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Originally posted by FieryIceA socialist party almost won in Canada, can we have that happen here, please?
Is it better to have a socialist party almost win but have the conservatives actually win, or having a somewhat-left-leaning-centrist party actually win?
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Given how useless both the Liberals and the Democrats have been in doing things, I'd take the socialist party in second over an ineffective, easily defeated barely left party.
The Liberals need to go back to the drawing board. New leadership and some fresh ideas should help - and they have 4 years to figure that out. They'd be screwed even more if this ended up as a minority AND they lost so many seats. That would mean another election in 2 years (give or take a few months) and they wouldn't be ready for that at all.
Considering that the Conservatives only got 40% of the vote, it's fucking crazy that they basically have carte blanche over the Canadian government for the next five years, assuming I understand how the legislative branch works.
Originally posted by SukasaFirst Past the Post is a horribly, horribly broken system.
Seriously. It's not even something that works "in theory". Considering that "in theory" you could manage to get EVERY seats with only a few votes more than another party.
Wonder why people aren't voting more? What's the point when your vote is likely to MEAN nothing
(edit: see also: UK in 2005)
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I wish we had something different in the United States, but the problem with a more representational form of elections is that unless you're going to drastically increase the amount representatives per state, you're not going to be able to represent each of them individually.
Then again, that's probably better than Wyoming having as much of a say in the Senate as California.
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The Bloc Quebecois is dead as a political party. I'm not saying that sovereignty is dead - they can push that through the PQ and Marois has more power now - but it made absolutely no sense to have a federal party pushing that agenda and taking up real estate in the House of Commons. I don't think anyone called the NDP destroying everyone in Quebec, but... 
