Comments on: Canada Will Have Parliamentary Election on October 14

By: Ron Cameron

Ron Cameron — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:04:03 +0000

Three Cheers for Danny Williams and his ABC policy

don’t trust Stephen Harper see what the conservatives are really like

Jack Abramoff Scandals I was watching PBS and could not help but did notice the number of times Stephen Harper’s picture was in thebackground in the different scenes and with many of his associates.Have you done anything to investigate these links with the conservative party of Canada as we know they used Americana’s that ran Bush’s campaign for there campain . Abramoff was convicted along with his partners of defrauding the American Indians of millions of dollars to prevent casinos in other states and used the relgious right movement with Bush to do this . The Conservatives are using these people in the background

By: Joanne Murray

Joanne Murray — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:48:14 +0000

Does anyone know whether, once an election is called, the sitting MP is no longer a Member of Parliament but is now simply a candidate?

By: Zeleni

Zeleni — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:52:19 +0000

The consortium of television networks that run the debates have denied the Green Party and May because three of the other parties would pull out of they were invited. One of these is a regional party, Bloc Quebecois, that most Canadians can’t vote for since they restrict themselves to one province.

http://www.greenparty.ca/en/releases/09.08.2008b
http://www.demanddemocraticdebates.ca/

By: Demo Rep

Demo Rep — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:46:50 +0000

The Canada election law is on the web.

Just about the ONLY good political thing in Canada is the very easy ballot access laws — that unfortunately results in the nonstop super-EVIL minority rule gerrymander / plurality regimes nationally and in each province — getting worse and worse since the 1760s (repeat 1760s — after the U.K. wiped out the French regime in Canada)

One result was setting the stage for the American Revolution in 1775-1776 — the U.K. regime attempted to do in the American colonies what it did in conquered Canada — de facto enslave the French folks causing the ongoing HATE in Quebec for the English — with on and off attempts at secession / independence.

The western parts of Canada have also making secession noises for decades — directly due to the gerrymander / plurality math of the EVIL *system*.

By: eddy

eddy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:24:32 +0000

Edward:
I don’t know the in and outs of canadian election law to be able to answer your questions. But two points stand out to me as explaining the success of smaller parties there. First, I think constituency size is smaller, making more likely the possibility of a regionally successful minor party to win a plurality. Second, the very regional and culturally specific bloc quebecois can be successful (only in quebec) because of its unique cultural and language ties and the the distinction between french and non-french canada. This second point also helps give rise to a third, and that is simply that there is a tradition of more than 2 parties, so voters think differently about the way they vote.

By: Edward Brown

Edward Brown — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:26:43 +0000

What is involved — in comparison to the US — in terms of getting a political party organized and its candidates on the ballot or being on the ballot as an Independent?

Is the Canda Supreme Court friendlier to non-major party candidates/political rights? I would be interested to know the answers to these questions.

By: eddy

eddy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:48:24 +0000

We tried to institute a form of PR in Ontario a year or two ago (I currently reside there) with a referendum, but it failed. Hardly anyone knew about it, the great majority who did understand it supported the reform. In my view the ruling Liberal Party opposed it (to their own detriment) and worked against public education of the referendum to cause its failure.

By: NE

NE — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:14:05 +0000

The New Democratic Party supports a mixed voting system (i.e. some proportional representation as as well as some single member districts). I suppose it would be similar to the Scottish regional government’s election method.

By: Demo Rep

Demo Rep — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:36:22 +0000

About 20 percent of the voters will elect a bare majority of the members of the next Canada House of Commons — due to multiple parties.

I.E. the regime is totally unstable.

The various leftwing parties have NOT been able to get their acts together to demand proportional representation — i.e. each leftwing gang wants to have gerrymander control of the regime by its faction.

Total Votes / Total Seats = Equal votes needed for each seat winner — via vote transfers using candidate rank order lists.

Difficult math only for math morons and party hack incumbents.

Nonpartisan separate elections for elected executive officers and all judges.

By: Eric Sundwall

Eric Sundwall — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:56:26 +0000

If only the US could do it in one month and a week.