Job Offers Roll In For Dion
When Stephane Dion resigns Monday, he should consider the invitation of crossing over to the Green Party with his Green Shaft. They’ll welcome him with open arms.
It’s Great To Be Canadian
It’s great to be Canadian this week…special thanks to the Green Party, the NDP and the Liberals.
Is The Media Really That Biased?
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Welcome To The Harper Derangement Syndrome.
Search Google news for Stephen Harper and you’ll see exactly how biased the media is against him.
The top of the Goggle results start with this quote:
“Last night, Stephane, you panicked,” … “Your platform says we will spend billions of dollars we don’t have and go into deficit. (You) will raise taxes that will kill jobs”
Keep in mind that most people don’t read the story - just the headlines…
The media is actively campaigning against the Conservatives and Harper - giving the equivalent of millions of dollars of advertising to the other parties.
I expect this in Vancouver where we have two newspapers owned by the same company… but you’d think that there would be one newspaper in Canada that isn’t far left.
Which leads me to question:
What are the papers in Canada so afraid of that they would compromise their integrity this way?
Isn’t the media supposed to balance coverage of the parties?
The papers are partisan hacks, and lack the balls to objectively look at what’s best for the country.
The NDP will crush the economy, the Liberals would return Canada to cronyism while holding us back through socialism, and the Green Party would take us back a century.
The Conservatives will move Canada forward globally, get government out of legislating behavior, and open Canada for business… I don’t see that as a bad thing.
Or, is it because Harper is from the west?
Funding The Green Party
photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
If you ever wondered how the Green Party gets its funded, an article on their site explains it. Their end game is to make money off of votes, knowing they have absolutely no chance of winning an election.
This is reason enough to bring back the Rhino party.
One of the big obstacles that the Green Party will face in the next election is that of the strategic voters. Those people who share our values and agree with our policies, but who are swayed by the scare tactics of the big parties that claim “If you don’t vote for us, then THEY will get in!” as they point their fingers at the other big parties.
Here are some arguments to help persuade the strategic voters to cast their vote with the Greens:
1. Casting a vote for one of the big parties tells them that you approve of their policies and political games. You get one valuable vote, something that people around the world are willing to die for. When you use it to support a party you don’t really believe in, they still will make the assumption that you used your valuable vote to support what you believe. “Canadians have spoken!” was the cry heard from many Conservatives after the last election, even though 63.7% of Canadian voters chose someone other than the Conservatives. Every vote cast for the Green Party sends a message that Green values and policies are important. Every vote cast for the Green Party will cause the big parties to raise their eyebrows and think “Hmm, maybe Canadians really DO want something other than our policies!”
2. The parties that receive over 2% of the national vote get $1.75 per vote cast from taxpayers. When you cast a vote for a party, you are not only saying that you approve of their values, but you give them your $1.75 to support their policies and future campaigns. This translated into about $9.4 M for the Conservatives in the last election, and only about $1M for the Green Party. If you support Green values, why not also support them with your tax dollars? Your funding will be available to lobby the government in power to support Green policies, even if your Green Party candidate does not win the seat.
3. The electoral districts (ridings) that receive 10% or more of their local vote receive 50% of their campaign spending back from the taxpayers. This means that your vote not only counts for the present election, but also puts support behind that party for the NEXT election! The Green Party did make it past 10% in some ridings, but most ridings fell short. If the strategic voters had cast their votes with the Greens in the last election, then there would be more funding available in many ridings to get out the all-important message that the Green Party has values that are worth supporting.
4. With the rise of the Green Party in the polls, and the increasing interest in environmental and economic sustainability, it is highly probable that the Green Party will edge out the other parties in a number of ridings in the next election. For some ridings, it will be the choices made by the strategic voters that tip the balance for or against the Greens. For those Canadians who really want to see change in the next election, the best strategy will be to vote Green.
Perhaps the next election will have the big parties waving their fingers at the Green Party candidates, exclaiming, “Vote for us, or else THEY’LL get in!” Hopefully, Canadian voters will hear this, and say, “Really? Then I’M voting GREEN!”
Alina Abbott
Candidate nominee
Chatham-Kent-Essex
Confirms that they know they can’t win, but need to target ridings they can get more than 10% of the vote.
This may explain their non-compete with the Liberals.
Glad BC Doesn’t Have A Say
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When 1,400 British Columbians were asked to include Obama and John McCain among their possible choices for prime minister, 42 per cent of them chose Obama, well ahead of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who attracted support from 29 per cent of those polled.
Placing third was New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton with 12 per cent.
At the bottom of the heap were Liberal leader Stephane Dion, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and U.S. Republican leader John McCain, with seven, six and five per cent support respectively.
When British Columbians were asked who they would chose as president of the U.S. if they were able to vote, 80 per cent chose Obama, while 20 per cent chose McCain.
Pity poor Stephane Dion; it appears he has as much chance of winning B.C.’s support in his quest to become prime minister as the Vancouver Canucks do of winning the Stanley Cup.
Not only did Dion attract only seven per cent of those polled as a potential prime minister, only one per cent found he was best described as charismatic and only two per cent said he could be best described as inspiring.
Kyle Braid, vice-president public affairs for Ipsos Reid, said the results were fascinating.
“B.C. has got a bit of a case of the Obama envy,” he said. “It’s really pretty incredible, the degree to which a leader from another country has set himself apart from other politicians.
“The numbers also show that Dion has managed to do that as well, but in his case it’s completely in the wrong direction.”
Amazing… especially the part about the Canucks.
Canada’s Answer to Lipstick - Elizabeth May
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The Green Party’s Elizabeth May finally got into the televised leader’s debates.
Let’s hope the Sarah Palin effect isn’t spilling over to in Canada.
Give her credit for getting Independent MP Blair Wilson - a former Liberal first elected in 2006 - to become a Green Party MP. She now gets her shot to get heard… despite having a poll rating of 8% (they got a whopping 4.3% of the vote last election - making them the new Rhino party).
The interesting thing is the deal Elizabeth made with Dion not to field a candidates in each others riding. Surprisingly, he didn’t join Layton in protesting her inclusion.
Any additional support she may get from the debates will come from the left and split the vote from those that want to crush Canadians with a new carbon tax… helping the Conservative Party get their majority.
The good news is that no one will be watching.
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