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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
https://votecompass.cbc.ca/
If you dare, CBC has their vote compass up. I envision that if I went to the Epoch Times version... no matter what I picked for answers it would say I should vote for the CPC.
I'm a boring arsed Centrist myself, pretty close to the dead center economically and socially when you do the 3D view. So these days that puts me closer to the Liberals than this version of the Conservatives.
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That was amusing.
Once you finish the questionnaire, there's a second step to actually weight the importance of those questions.
Overall I'm not surprised. I will say that as someone who works in O&G adjacent industry I do think it's important we build pipelines, refineries, barges to get our resources across the ocean, and I do think that as disagreeable as Stephen Harper was, he had one thing right - governments should only run a deficit in times of economic crisis (i.e. 2008 or 2020).
Ultimately I would love to vote "off the board" if there were a viable candidate/chance to win my riding, but strategically it's probably most important to me to keep PP out of office. I'm not truly sold on the liberals because they've made some questionable decisions (their handling of the housing crisis, the random appeasement sales tax cuts, their desire to raise capital gains tax despite the economic risk) but I could genuinely see Mark Carney being our best PM since Chretien, and maybe of my lifetime, and with how much these political parties are just a reflection of their leadership (because everyone votes on issues as their leadership directs them to) I am comfortable with the liberals. Ideally it's a liberal majority because I believe appeasing the NDP led to some budget mismanagement.
I like NDP policies and in the days of Jack Layton I think I voted for them at least once. I don't want to throw Jagmeet Singh under the bus, I think he's done an okay job, but the NDP probably need a new voice as he's just too combative to give them legitimacy.