Really, how powerful is a party, if voters
a) turned out to vote
b) punished parties for corruption or not following up on promises
In a perfect world, the above ingredients are part of the election stew.
Also, I find it funny that canadian elections are becoming more & more americanized. All the rhetoric & mudslinging. I remember martin's broken record response during the debate claiming that Harper was going to spend taxpayers dollars on aircraft carriers. Harper clarified his armed forces strategy, and martin just repeated his stupid aircraft carrier crap.
Did he say what HE was going to do with the armed forces? No. Just that Harper was going to waste money on aircraft carriers.
I was thinking to myself "at least we'd have something to effing show for the money. Better than having a $250,000,000 report on nothing"
Reminds me of the american campaigns that have something like
"Geroge Nethercutt voted no on bill 444. Bill 444 has saved twenty gazillion lives since it was made law. Essentially, George Nethercutt would rather see those people DIE."
"Paid for by the John Smith campaign for governer"
Excuse me, did you say how you voted? Did you say what you are going to do if you win? Npoe, just that the other guy sucks, so vote for me.
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