Canada Ping!
Posted on 10/16/2015 2:12:08 AM PDT by Nextrush
You go to the polling station with a "voting card" that you received in the mail. You have to present ID. Your name is crossed off the voting list when you are given the ballot. You are given a paper ballot that you mark an "X" next to the candidate of your choice. Marked ballot goes in a box. The number of ballots issued at every polling station must match the number found in the boxes when the polls close which must also mark the number of people crossed off the voting list. If the parties are organized, every party has at least one poll watcher in attendance.
No baton wielding thugs. No machines. No non-citizens or dead people. I'm not saying there is no fraud but the opportunities are somewhat limited.
Finally, politics in Canada is not a blood sport. Civility still rules, mostly.
He is called a “dictator” by his detractors. The scary thing is he passed the Canadian version of the Patriot Act that the Liberals will surely use to persecute the right in Canada.
I was listening to the Libertarian party leader. He put it “Canadians want something for nothing, and they want a government that is able to reassure them that everything will be OK”
I agree. The drama teacher has nice hair, but huge spaces between his ear lobes.
I ignore any poll under 1500 as it is next to useless. Still the trend is to Trudeau.
I see the CPC as the centre, the Liberals as the left, and the NDP as the very left.
Harper seriously screwed up this campaign. Talking about shutting down pot dispensaries will turn off voters in BC. He should have stuck to terrorism and the economy. Then again he did add 150 billion to the debt.
Canadian legislation tends to be modest when compared to what often gets past US Congress. Part of the reason is that political parties, in Canada, tend to be much more motivated because they can literally, unless the majority party has an ironclad majority which even then is no absolute because party members are free to vote against the government, bring it down.
I’m not familiar with the idea that US Congress could be overthrown and elections be held within a few weeks. This can happen in Canada.
Canada Ping!
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