We’ve got a few trips to the voting booth planned for this fall and I hope all of you have done your homework. I find it very disappointing to know so many people that do not take their citizen’s duty of voting seriously, at least seriously enough to take some of their time to educate themselves on the issues and go vote. Once every few years. It’s pretty straight-forward and it DOES make a difference. In the words of MacKenzie King, former Canadian Prime Minister:
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
You read it here: bad government is the result of too many people not being sufficiently concerned, no excuses. With this is mind, here are a few helpful links:
- Green Party of Canada: Proportional representation would give them much more of a voice than they’ve ever had since polls put them pretty close to the 10% of votes. Will this be the year they elect their first MP?
- NDP: Or should it more accurately be renamed the Social Democratic Party of Canada? They’re the only other party really talking about poverty.
- The Green Liberals: Read the Green Shift (which is somewhat a tweaked version of the Green’s plan), there are sensible ideas in it despite the current government’s repeated attempts to have it portrayed as simply ‘another tax’.
Then of course there’s south of our border and all the attention Tina Fey has been getting: is that the highlight of the campaign or could it otherwise have something to do with some guy named Obama breaking down incredible barriers in a frankly still, although unacknowledged, discriminatory country? I’ll simply direct you to a few NY Times pieces I’ve really liked in the past 90 days or so:
- The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama: “The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder.”
- Know-Nothing Politics: “What’s more, the politics of stupidity didn’t just appeal to the poorly informed. Bear in mind that members of the political and media elites were more pro-war than the public at large in the fall of 2002.”
- Making America Stupid: “Unless we make America the country most able to innovate, compete and win in the age of globalization, our leverage in the world will continue to slowly erode. Those are the issues this election needs to be about, because that is what the next four years need to be about.”
- Hold Your Heads Up: Civil rights? Women’s rights? Liberals went to the mat for them time and again against ugly, vicious and sometimes murderous opposition. They should be forever proud.
- Steal Back your Vote: “A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again!”
Tuesday October 14th is Election Day in Canada and Tuesday November 4th is the US General, House of Representatives and Senate (a third of seats) Election Day. Go vote.
Guy
Manu, t’as oublié qu’au Québec y’a le Bloc Québécois qui s’assure que les valeurs du Québec soit bien représenté et que nous ayons une voie à Ottawa! Au Vote!
-Guy
Emanuel
Mon intention n’était pas d’être exhaustif dans les choix…J’aimerais commenter longuement sur ton point de vue mais ce sera pour une autre fois, peut-être…
Guy
Ben finalement le plus pathétique de la soirée d’hier c’est de constater que seulement 57% des canadiens sont aller voter…
Citoyens où étiez-vous? Vous aviez mieux à faire probablement hein.
Emanuel
Déplorable, effectivement.