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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
You prefer a party that bends over to the unions?
I agree with Shawnski. The NDP are a fringe party that will never govern, nor should they ever govern. We've seen way to many times what happens to provinces that stick themselves with the NDP. BC is only now finally emerging from the hole the NDP put them in.
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Does it really matter? With the system the way it is and the atrophy of interest Canadians are expressing, does it matter which players are calling the shots behind the scenes? Oil Tycoons or Labour Unions?
All of them stink, and all have crippling flaws. The big money behind the party will have a significant say. Liberals get their share from big business, the NDP from unions and the Conservatives from big business and our friends below the 49th.
I am just looking for someone to pipe up and give me something to go on as I think the liberals need to clean their house before they are ready to govern again.
All I have seen from the major opposition is continued support of a leader who sent a letter in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for Canada not going into Iraq. Talk about ends justifying the means, eh Shawnski?
I have seen nothing from either of the two major parties that make me think the issues I believe to be important will be addressed.
The voice of the NDP has come closest, and as such they will be getting my vote regardless of whether or not they are viewed as a fringe party in some parts of the country.
I have to vote for what I believe in even if I know that it means the party that I am not comfortable with will have it's chief opposition weakened.
Democracy moves on....