It's not that I've lost interest in voting, it's just that all of the major
advertising parties simply
suck. The
Liberal party is corrupt and ignores the opinions of Westerners. The
Canadian Alliance is very right wing, they want to bring up some issues of
human rights that should be left as they are, and they want to renegotiate
native treaties. The
Progressive Conservative party is responsible for nearly every major tax that our country has had in the last two decades. And the
NDP party, well, no sane person in
British Columbia would vote for them after all the
wasted money and
corruption here.
That leaves the
Bloc Quebecois, which has had
seperatist leaning for years, and besides, doesn't campaign
out west here. There is the
Green Party, which has an admirable philosophy, but kind of rubs me the wrong way with their talk of banning
GM foods, which may conceivably save millions of lives a year (Correct me if I'm wrong, please). There's the
Canadian Unity Party, which seems to be a bit too religiously backed for my tastes (Not that that is so wrong, but it just bothers me).
And then there is the
Canadian Action Party, which seems to care about the same basic things I do, and has no particular policies that I disagree with. Since they are the
lesser of many evils, I can safely choose to vote for my local candidate, Will Arlow.
Oh, and don't complain about that
lesser of evils thing, I know a lot of you
Americans did the same thing in
your election. I mean come on,
Gore vs. Bush?
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