To: benwood who wrote (64006 ) 6/5/2010 9:50:27 AM From: Cogito Ergo Sum 10 Recommendations Read Replies (3) | Respond to well your post deservedly took some thought, especially since I come from a Canucky perspective.. we, as a nation, just don't want 'em. I We have a minority government presently , or as the Brits call it a hung parliament. While it would seem that less can get done it prevents largely no party from running roughshod, also other parties still keep mum at times for political expediency.. The lingering thought behind almost every move it seems by an elected official in a democracy.. is will this help me get reelected and keep the gravy flowing ... I used to bemoan this minority situation but it seems that since consensus must be arrived at to get anything of import done.. that the public desires seems better addressed through more thorough debate..It's the national denial that keeps this going I watched your political debates/townhalls ? for the first time between Obama and McCain.. It struck me quite pointedly how much time both candidates spent stroking the public and their collective sensitivities and egos with exhortations of how great Americans were.. More often up here it is the attitude that... OK we all screwed up and this is what we need to do... and it is not that we are not patriotic enough up here.. The outpouring for Afghan casualties coming home has demonstrated that we are quite so, for one thing.. despite a majority that is now against the war...those multinational corps just I was amazed and posted same on that topic.. not only corporations as I understand it but labour unions also etc ? Basically any group with dough can buy weight in your system.. Our parliament just enacted a law some 4 years ago prohibiting that. No corporations, no unions, associations etc.. can legally make political contributions.. do not have a worthy candidate A few years ago the old Conservative party (Progressive conservatives) had a leader Brian Mulroney that came to be so utterly despised that even though he resigned and passed the Baton to an up and coming relatively well liked woman Kim Campbell.. Canucks were so pi$$ed that they literally destroyed the party at election time.. The election was an unmitigated disaster for Canada's governing party. Their popular vote plunged from 43% to 16%, and they lost all but two of their 151 seats when parliament was dissolved—far surpassing the Liberals' 95-seat loss in 1984. It was the worst defeat, both in absolute terms and in terms of percentage of seats lost, for a governing party at the federal level in Canada. It is one of the few occasions that a governing party in any country has gone from a strong majority to being almost wiped off the electoral map. en.wikipedia.org
