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Canadians Have Spoken
May 8th
Election 41 is over now and we got pretty much what I expected, a majority Conservative Party government. Was it the right decision by Canadians? I think so but only the next 4 years will actually tell whether or not we made that right decision.
The biggest surprises of the election? The Liberal Party being soundly beaten by the NDP as the opposition party by a tune of 34 seats to 102 seats. To me it shows how much Michael Ignatieff was disliked as the party leader and his candidates paid the price. Even worse for them was the NDP admitting they would never be able to pay for all their promises yet they were still able to dominate the Liberals. The fact that the people in Ignatieff’s home riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore didn’t elect them as their MP is proof of the dislike of the party leader. The day after the election he resigned as party leader. I guess he can head back to Harvard to teach again.
The next surprise was the Bloc Québécois dropping from 49 seats down to 4. This clearly shows that the people of La Belle Province want to be part of this great country of Canada. Surprising too was that it was the NDP that picked up the seats in the province and not the Conservatives or Liberals. Totally amazing! Like Michael Ignatieff, Gilles Duceppe was also beaten in his home riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie. The people spoke and he too resigned as party leader following the election.
Some will say that Elizabeth May winning a first ever seat for the Green Party was a surprise. I had expected this all along. Yes, she beat a Conservative Cabinet Minister but she ran a good race and the Green Party had been close before. It is always good to have a major party leader represent your riding. I guess the broadcasters will have to come up with another reason to exclude her from the next debate.
So what do I expect from the new majority government? I do expect much of what we have seen from Stephen Harper the last couple of years. We will get arrogance for sure. But we will also get a stable economy, an economy that has been one of the strongest in the world. There will also be some promises broken but many of those were made in the prospect or garnering votes that never materialized. I don’t expect the election promise of $150 million to build the year round road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk to be kept because the riding didn’t elect the conservative candidate Sandy Lee. You scratch my back and I will scratch yours. This type of promise breaking will happen all over the country wherever this has happened.
This type of thing happens all the time and you live with it. People will be up in arms over the broken promises but if you want what you are promised you need to elect those who make the promises and form the government. Hopefully we as Canadians made the right decision for Canada and we become and even stronger country with an even stronger economy. I guess the next 4 years will tell.
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It’s Time to Vote! Make it Count!
May 1st
We at the final day of the election campaigning for Election 41 in Canada. One thing that has caught my attention lately is Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party criticizing the opposition of a government formed by a coalition of the opposition parties because coalition governments don’t work.
While this may be true with our current form of electing our MPs, this would work with a government elected through proportional representation as is proven by many successful governments around the world that work with coalitions all the time. It is because no one party has a large enough of a control to make the coalition volatile.
But until this happens, I happen to agree with many of Conservative Party policies. According to many major newspapers across Canada, the do to as posted in an article today showing a recap of various editorials. While I think that Stephen Harper can be aloof and even arrogant at times, the Conservative platform is what is going to be needed in Canada.
I do like some of the policies, however, of the NDP but the problem is that they have been unable to explain how many of the things they want to do will be paid for. The last time I checked, everything costs money and that will only come through the reduction of existing services or the raising of taxes. Since the NDP platform promises everything, nothing will be reduced which means higher taxes for all of us.
The Liberal Party is and always has been there to look after Ontario and Quebec. This is the same this year and like the NDP have promised the world without thinking about where the money to fund everything is going to come from. Both the NDP and Liberals want to reduce the development and production of the Oil Sands in Alberta but they don’t bother to think about the impact this has on the economy and employment in Alberta or the tax revenues that the Government of Canada receive from it. I actually agree that over time the need for development of the Oil Sands will need to be reduced however until such time as a viable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels is being produced, the Oil Sands and other projects like the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline are needed and help fund our governments.
Again, I am all for the Green Party and their ideals. But at the present time we have to just hope that Elizabeth May can get her seat to become the first Green Party MP and go from there. As the push for alternative sources of energy becomes more prominent the Green Party will continue to grow however like the Red and Orange parties, funding for some of their initiatives has not been explained. Maybe in 10 years the Green will stand a chance of being a viable alternative to the major parties but until they can explain how government will be funded without the taxes that come from the industries and businesses that they would prefer to eliminate and how the jobs they will chop with those businesses will be replaced. The ideals for both the Greens and NDP are there…just not explained.
So on the last day I think I have made my decision. I received the obligatory Liberal Party, NDP and Green Party propaganda stuffed in my door although I will say the Green Party got here a couple of weeks ago whereas both the Liberal and NDP showed up yesterday trying to get my vote. Last day is kind of late I am afraid. I doubt anyone who is voting tomorrow hasn’t made up their minds. The same thing with the Conservatives who phoned me with a pre-recorded message that politely told me the benefits of voting for the Conservatives and giving them a majority government.
So while we spent the last 35 days listening to promises from everyone you need to vote. It doesn’t matter who you vote for as long as the decision is your own and you are deciding for reasons that make sense to you. You can’t vote a specific way if you don’t understand the issues. If you have not followed along, then visit the party websites and do some reading so you can make at least a semi-educated decision. Voting without reason is as bad as not voting.
THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY AND GOVERNMENT SO GET INFORMED AND MAKE A DECISION TO VOTE. USE YOUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO VOTE.
Costs and Veiled Promises
Apr 22nd
We are at the point of the election campaign that I love. The buying of votes. I am sure that the political parties will sway some votes with their promises of this and that but the funny thing that many people don’t understand is that their are costs to these promises and the promises are veiled.
What I am talking about are mainly the regional promises that are made. Not the ones that affect all Canadians like increasing payments to healthcare or the children’s daycare and nutrition initiatives. They are regional promises for a reason.
People need to think of the cost of promises and ask where the money is going to come from. Here are some of the examples of what I am talking about.
The Conservative Party and Stephen Harper has pledged $150 million to build the all-year land road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk. It is a fantastic plan and something that would help the people of the region. But where is the money going to come from to pay for this? The veiled part of this promise; if the Conservatives form the government and Sandy Lee is not the MP for the Western Arctic, do you really think that the Conservatives will still go ahead with giving the region the money? Of course not. If you don’t vote for our candidate and they don’t win then you didn’t help us so we don’t have to help you. Simple as that.
The Liberal Party and Michael Ignatieff have offered to double the Canada Council of Arts budget to $360 million over the next 4 years in order to woo the large contingent of artists in Quebec. Like the Conservatives, there is no mention as to how this is going to be funded and again, even if the Liberals form the next government, if the Liberal candidates in Quebec are not the MPs then the Liberal Party has no reason to follow through with their promises.
The Bloc Québécois and Gilles Duceppe have promised…wait, they can only make promises in one region (Quebec) and never have to worry about how they would fund everything they promise because they will never be the governing party in Canada. All of their promises to the voters in Quebec are veiled. Seriously, why would anyone in Quebec vote for a candidate whose party will never form the government in Canada?
As much as I hate to say it, the NDP and Green Party fall into the same area as the BQ. It pains me because I like many of the ideas of the NDP and I was a Green Party member for several years. But the fact is, both parties can promise all they want, and as good and well thought out as those promises are, they have never formed the government in Canada and are unlikely to in the immediate future. Anything they promise doesn’t have to have an explanation of where the funding is going to come from or worry about having to follow through with their promises.
In the Western Arctic, Dennis Bevington is or was our MP. He is a member of the NDP. What has Dennis done for us lately. Not much really. Why? Because he is a member of a party whose ideals may fit with the people of the NWT (and many other Canadians) but his party will never lead the government. A government formed using Proportional Representation elections might change that but until reform, this will continue.
It basically comes down to you help me and I’ll help you; you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. Unfortunately it also means if you don’t help me then you won’t get what I promised you. It is typical of politicians.
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Where are the Fresh Issues?
Apr 17th
We are now 3 weeks into the campaigning for Election 41 and I have yet to hear anything fresh or new. Have you? As in all elections, we hear promise after promise with no explanation of how it will be fulfilled. Same old, same old.
Seriously, do these leaders think we are all buffoons? That their promises can buy their votes. I am sure that there are individuals in Canada who don’t take the time to look at the issues and whose vote can be “bought” by the promises of the party leaders. But the majority of voting Canadians have brains and can think and read for themselves. So instead of making promises in each location in order to lure votes, why don’t the leaders take the time to make promises to all Canadians that will benefit all Canadians. And if you are going to promise something in one region, why not promise it in all regions?
Michael Ignatieff promised Quebec City funding for Le Colisée under the guise of a Multi-Cultural Centre when in fact we know the facility will be used as the primary lure in getting and NHL team to return. In Edmonton, Mr. Ignatieff told the local people that his Liberal Party would not help fund a downtown arena because they are not into subsidizing private sports teams. Agreed, Quebec City doesn’t have an NHL team at the present but we know a new building is needed if they are to attract an NHL team to return. Does this mean that if Le Colisée becomes the primary home to a private sports team down the road, that a Liberal government will ask for their portion of the funding to be returned to the people of Canada? Not likely. If I remember correctly, Mr. Harper and the Conservative Party said no to both places.
There is the issue making the rounds about our Healthcare System. The NDP claim to be the party of choice for Canadians claiming they would help make the current healthcare system better, yet Jack Layton doesn’t tell us how his party plans to fund this. We have the Liberals showing ads that claims the Conservatives will gut healthcare yet it was the Liberal Party who cut health transfer payments to the provinces in order to reduce spending. Healthcare is a great concern in Canada with an aging population but until someone comes up with an idea of how to change it and how they will fund these changes, we still have better healthcare than many countries in the world.
Today it was Stephen Harper trying to convince Canadians that unless he gets a majority government, there is a good chance that Quebec will separate. Harper says that the confidence vote that Pauline Marois received as leader of the Parti Québécois, the provincial equivalent of the Bloc Québécois, will just push the separatist movement forward in La belle province. Harper is trying to fuel fear into Canadians and those who don’t support the separatist movement in PQ that without his party winning a majority, it puts Canada as we know it at risk. Poppycock!!! We have been hearing about Quebec and separation back as far as I can remember and nothing ever comes of it. It is a threat that Quebec uses to get its’ way with the federal government but in reality, Quebec would have a hard time making it as a nation if they were to separate and take their portion of the national debt.
So my message to the party leaders is this: give us some issues that mean something to most Canadians and give us your fiscal solution to resolving these issues. Change our election process so that more people are interested and have the feeling that their vote means something. Enough of the same old, same old. Give us a fresh view; something that will entice more people to get out and vote. Make ALL of our votes count for something.
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Bickering or Democracy?
Apr 14th
The so called “Leader’s Debate” was completed Tuesday and Wednesday evening with everyone claiming victory. The Conservative Party claim that Stephen Harper won the debate, the Liberal Party claim Michael Ignatieff won the debate and the NDP claim Jack Layton won the debate. Who actually won? The broadcast consortium won. That’s who.
How did they win? They won because they effectively told the Canadian public that the Green Party of Canada was not a party to take seriously. The broadcasters have decided that a party that received nearly a million votes in the last election, ran candidates in all 308 ridings, had the largest increase in the popular vote and Canadians demanded be involved in the last leader’s debate should be excluded this time around while the leader of a party that represents 1 province with 75 candidates is included. That is democracy?
During the debate, Liberal leader Ignatieff interrupted Conservative leader Harper as Mr. Harper was talking about the supposed “bickering” that appeared to be going on. Mr. Ignatieff quickly made the statement that “this is not bickering, this is democracy”. I would like Mr. Ignatieff to explain himself on this point. How is this democracy when the participants were dictated by a group of suits that are supported by and support the 4 leaders invited.
So, while I was making this point on Twitter yesterday, I was promptly called an “asshat” for even suggesting that Green leader May be included. Jeff Leroux (@jeffleroux), a twitter user who appears to spend more time answering tweets or retweeting rather than coming up with original thoughts of his own, stated to me in reply to my tweet (#db8 Iggy: "This is not bickering, this is democracy". How so @M_Ignatieff when @ElizabethMay is not invited to the debate? Explain? #elxn41) that you need to be a member of parliament to be at the debate. Since when?
And yes Mr. Ignatieff, what was mostly going on during the debate was bickering. Very little was based on what the parties would do if elected and how they would go about doing it. Instead, the leaders all took turns taking shots at the Conservatives while Mr. Harper spent his time deflecting. But did we learn anything new? Not an iota.
So here is my suggestion to the Broadcast Consortium next time there is an election (which should be in another 2 years). Ask the Canadian public who should be invited to the debate. Let the Canadian public decide who they want included in both the English and French debates. Let us decide who we want to listen to the thoughts and ideas of. Don’t dictate to us who we are going to listen to.
Should the Jeff Leroux’s of Canada be afraid if the broadcasters do this. Yes they should. It will be pretty embarrassing for the major leaders when the smaller party leader wins the debate because they actually have ideas worth looking at in Canada. Maybe that was his point. Don’t include Elizabeth May or any other non traditional leader as it might show Canadians that there are actually smarter and more progressive alternatives to the big parties.
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Is It Time To Change to Proportional Representation?
Apr 9th
Now that we are underway in the 4th election campaign in the last 7 years it is time to look at the future. We are 1 week into the campaigns and we have the same old, same old. Parties making promises they can’t keep. Leaders visiting regions they don’t have control of trying to buy votes for their party by offering things but not explaining how it is going to be paid for.
Maybe now is the time to think of a different, more progressive form of government? Is the current format working for Canada any longer? No!! Voter turn-out keeps diminishing every election. Why? 1 reason is that voters no longer think their vote is going to count. Alberta is one of the provinces where inequality exists in voting. Quebec is another. Why vote if my vote isn’t going to help make a difference?
If we are going to be forced into a minority government then we need to do it better. We need to face the fact that with the BQ controlling 67% of La belle province’s seats, it takes one of the other parties winning 60% of the seats in the rest of the country to get a majority. This is not likely to happen any time soon. Maybe it is time for something like Provincial Proportional Representation (PPR).
What is Provincial Proportional Representation you ask? There are 2 ways this could work. One would be with a closed list and the other an open list. In a Closed List, Provincial Proportional Representation system, all the Parties in a province list in a priority order of their candidates running in the federal election. The people in the provincial ridings vote for the party they want to elect a candidate from. Based on the popular vote from the province the parties would have elected MPs from the list they submitted. So for example, a province like New Brunswick that has 10 seats with the Conservative Party having 40% (as in 2008) of the vote would have 4 MPs…the first 4 MPs submitted on their closed list.
In an Open List, Provincial Proportional Representation system, we would vote for individuals in a riding as we do now. However, winning your riding doesn’t necessarily give you a seat as an MP. Again, using New Brunswick as an example, the Conservatives have 40% of the popular vote even though they win 6 ridings (as they did in 2008). In this system, the Conservatives would still only get 4 seats due to 40% of the vote and those 4 MPs would be the 4 conservative candidates with the highest popular vote in their riding. In the results of 2008, the Liberal Party would have their 3 candidates with the highest popular vote of all their candidates, the NDP with 2 and the Green Party with 1. In either of these ways, the conservatives would lose 2 seats with the NDP and Greens gaining 1 each.
This type of government makes it almost impossible for one party to govern with a majority but distributes the MPs based on the desires of the voting citizens. The Prime Minister would be the leader of the party with the greatest number of seats as it currently is. This system would make it tougher to have a party dominate their views on the people of Canada. All parties would need to work together or we would be heading back for elections every year. The parties and candidates would need to work closely together and work in the best interest of Canada and Canadians and not necessarily the views of the party they represent. There would be a need for give and take; the need for parties to talk with each other rather than against each other
Here is a table I did that shows the results of the 2008 election compared to how it would have worked out in Provincial Proportional Representation system:
| CPC | LPC | NDP | GPC | BQ | Other | Total | |
|
NF |
0 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
|
PE |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|
NS |
3 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
11 |
|
NB |
6 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
|
PQ |
10 |
14 |
1 |
0 |
49 |
1 |
75 |
|
ON |
51 |
38 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
106 |
|
MB |
9 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
|
SK |
13 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
|
AB |
27 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
28 |
|
BC |
22 |
5 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
36 |
|
NT |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
NU |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
YT |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Total |
143 |
77 |
37 |
0 |
49 |
2 |
308 |
Legend: Actual 2008 Election Results, (Provincial Proportional Representation based on 2008 results)
If the 2008 election had used the PPR system, the conservatives would have still been the dominant party and Stephen Harper would still have been Prime Minister however with much less control. The Conservative Party would have been forced to work with the other parties in a partnership and the problems that resulted in the “Contempt of Parliament” non-confidence vote would have been less likely to happen. In this format the BQ would also have been a big loser however the province would be represented correctly based on how people voted. The Liberal Party would have gained slightly with the NDP and Green Party being the biggest winners gaining 20 and 22 seats respectively. Again, these numbers accurately elect MPs based the overall vote in the province.
As it is right now, the elected members don’t represent accurately the vote. Take a look at Alberta for example. The Conservative Party was elected in 27 of 28 seats which is 96.4% of the seats however they only captured 64.7% of the vote. Is that fair? We are basically telling 400,000 of the people that voted that their vote doesn’t count. And how many people didn’t go out to vote because they knew that the Conservatives would be elected in almost all ridings?
In Quebec the BQ collected 49 of 75 seats or 65.3%. In fact they only had 38.1% of the vote. How fair is that? We are telling over 1 million people that their vote doesn’t count. Definitely not an accurate depiction of voting.
We now are at a time when a change in the way the government is formed might be the best thing for the country and we need to let our leaders know that we want change. Other countries are fighting these days for democracy. We are fortunate in Canada to have the right to vote but if we continue along the current path, we will continue to have an ineffective government.
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Western Arctic and Nunavut Links
Apr 6th
This is a follow up to my post showing the federal social media and online links. This post is to share the links for the Western Arctic and Nunavut ridings. It appears right now that the Conservative candidate in the Western Arctic is fighting a battle within the party so I was unable to find any links for Sandy Lee.
Conservative Party:
- NWT Website – http://www.electsandylee.ca/
- Nunavut Website – http://www.leonaaglukkaq.ca/
- NWT Twitter – Sandy Lee
- Nunavut Twitter – Leona Aglukkaq
- NWT Facebook – Sandy Lee
- Nunavut Facebook – Leona Aglukkaq
Liberal Party:
- NWT Website – http://www.liberal.ca/
- Nunavut Website –
- NWT Twitter – Joe Handley
- Nunavut Twitter – Paul Okalik
- NWT Facebook – Joe Handley
- Nunavut Facebook – Paul Okalik
New Democratic Party:
- NWT Website – http://www.dennisbevington.ca/
- Nunavut Website – http://jackhicks.ndp.ca/
- NWT Twitter – Dennis Bevington
- Nunavut Twitter – Jack Hicks
- NWT Facebook – Dennis Bevington
- Nunavut Facebook – Jack Hicks
Green Party:
- NWT Website – http://nwtgreen.com/
- Nunavut Website – http://greenparty.ca/en/campaigns/nu
- NWT Twitter – Eli Purchase
- Nunavut Twitter – Scott MacCallum
- NWT Facebook – Eli Purchase
- Nunavut Facebook – Scott MacCallum
I was unable to find a link for several of the candidates so if you know what they are, please send them to me and I will update the page. Please leave me comments of any other links you think readers would benefit from in order to become more informed voters on May 2nd.
Broadcasters Dictate Democracy?
Apr 5th
During the last election campaign back in 2008, Canadians spoke and demanded that Green Party Leader Elizabeth May be included in the leaders debate. Again during this year’s election campaign the Canadian Broadcast Consortium has excluded the Green’s leader from the Leaders Debate.
Does anyone else think this is funny? Aren’t broadcasters supposed to be impartial when it comes to telling us the news? In 2008, almost 1 million Canadians voted for the Green Party and their candidates but this group of broadcasters has decided yet again to ignore this group of people. They have decided what their version of democracy is.
The funny thing is that none of the other leaders have said that they don’t want Elizabeth included. Former Prime Ministers Paul Martin and Joe Clark have also stated that Elizabeth May should be included in the debate yet the broadcasters stand firm excluding the Green Party leader.
Now the courts have decided that the Green Party doesn’t have the right to fast track any sort of hearing to see if they have the right to have their leader included. Again the Broadcast Consortium wins and gets to decide on democracy in Canada.
The Broadcast Consortium stated that other leaders might not show up if Elizabeth May was allowed to participate. First, I have never heard any leader say they wouldn’t participate. Second, if they didn’t participate, wouldn’t that show what kind of leader that person is? Afraid to take on a leader of the smallest of the 5 major parties? Afraid that this small party leader would show them up? Is that someone we would want leading our country anyway.
So here is my suggestion to anyone who supports the democratic way in Canada. Our democratic way, not the Broadcasters Consortiums version of democracy. If the Elizabeth May is not invited to participate in the leaders debate, why don’t we all turn our channels from the major Canadian networks to one of the Canadian cable channels or even one of the US channels. Let’s boycott the predetermined Leader’s Debate. Let’s show the Broadcast Consortium that we decide what is democracy in Canada is. Let’s show them that they need to be impartial as broadcasters and give Canadians the right to see all. If they can invite a leader who represents one party to the Debate, they can include one that represents all ridings in Canada. BOYCOTT THE DEBATE!!
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Time for Stability?
Apr 3rd
A new poll published yesterday shows that the Conservative Party are getting closer to the majority government that they are hoping for. Maybe this is the right thing for Canada. I believe that stability in government is what we need now. After 4 elections in 7 years and the potential instability that goes with it, maybe it’s time to give the government a majority.
There has been a lot said lately about the Conservative Government being held in “contempt of parliament”, however, while this is the first time a party has been called on this, lets be honest and realize that no political party elected in Canada has been perfect.
Every government has had their scandals and failures exploited and over blown by the opposition parties. Each has had the good things that they have done diminished and belittled by the opposition parties all vying to make themselves the choice for people once the government in power calls an election.
Everyone has their own spin on where government should spend monies in a budget. Under the current Conservative Government everyone got tax cuts. This includes big business, both you and I with the majority of the tax cuts going toward small business.
The current Conservative Government took a hard stand on crime. If you want to be soft on criminals, let drug dealers off with a “slap on the wrist” as other parties would have happen. This will poison more people and end up costing our health care even more than it does now. And many people complain about the current state of our healthcare. Have you taken a look at how good we have it compared to many other countries?
Election 41–Social Media Links
Apr 1st
As a follow-up to my last post I thought I would post some of the Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr links I could quickly find so that you can follow along and become better informed. Please feel free to leave any other links you feel appropriate that I may have missed in a comment. If you want to follow along on Twitter and find out what people are saying about this election it appears the #elxn41 is the hashtag being used for this.
Conservative Party:
- Website – http://www.conservative.ca/
- Twitter – Stephen Harper
- Facebook – Conservative Party
- Facebook – Stephen Harper
- YouTube – Conservative Party
- Flickr – Stephen Harper
- Blog – Campaign
- RSS – Conservative Party Top Stories
Liberal Party:
- Website – http://www.liberal.ca/
- Twitter – Michael Ignatieff
- Facebook – Liberal Party
- Facebook – Michael Ignatieff
- YouTube – Liberal Party
- Flickr – Michael Ignatieff
- Blog – Campaign
- RSS – Liberal Party Blog
New Democratic Party:
- Website – http://www.ndp.ca
- Twitter – Jack Layton
- Facebook – NDP
- Facebook – Jack Layton
- YouTube – NDP
- Flickr – NDP
- Blog –
- RSS – Press Releases
Green Party:
- Website – http://www.greenparty.ca
- Twitter – Green Party
- Twitter – Elizabeth May
- Facebook – Green Party
- Facebook – Elizabeth May
- YouTube – Green Party
- Flickr – Green Party
- Blog – Elizabeth May
- RSS – GP Main News Feed
- RSS – Press Releases
Bloc Québécois:
- Website – http://www.blocquebecois.org/accueil.aspx
- Twitter – Bloc Québécois
- Twitter – Gilles Duceppe
- Facebook – Bloc Québécois
- Facebook – Gilles Duceppe
- YouTube – Bloc Québécois
- Flickr – Bloc Québécois
- Blog – Bloc Québécois
- RSS –
I wasn’t able to find a link to either a party or leader blog on the NDP site. I was also not able to find an RSS feed on the BQ site but that might have been more because I didn’t translate correctly. I was looking for the RSS Icon.
Please leave me comments of any other links you think readers would benefit from in order to become more informed voters on May 2nd.
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