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calculoso · 09-26-2015, 09:27 AM

Every party has their "creepy" people. Much has been said about Harper. NDP just happen to have theirs as the Leader. Liberals have Paul McCallum, who I swear seems like he's talking down to everyone all the time. The less that I see of each of him the better.

Drak · 09-26-2015, 10:18 AM

Not a fan of Trudeau. Then again, I'm not a fan of any of the candidates. Having said that, I'm leaning my vote Liberal.

sworkhard · 09-26-2015, 12:53 PM

LPC is not running in my riding, the haven't seen or heard anything about the NDP candidate, I won't support the conservatives this time because the only thing I like about their platform is the economic one, so I'll probably be voting green as the green candidate is actually making an effort even though the CPC will probably take my riding with around 80% of the vote.

rubecube · 09-26-2015, 01:00 PM

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LPC is not running in my riding.

Are you sure about this? It would really surprise me if they didn't have a candidate in every riding.

Coach · 09-26-2015, 01:59 PM

I started the election on the NDP side, but the Liberals have pulled me while the NDP pushed me away. I like the Liberal infrustructure investment and defecit spending along with their social policies. I do feel like the NDP is being crazy harsh on oil. I am definitiely not for oil, and I am totally game to tax the crap out of big corporations, but I don't think we should be actively against putting in pipelines and hindering the industries ability to move it's product. If we want the investment into alternatives, the profits need to be there to generate it.

Tron_fdc · 09-26-2015, 02:40 PM

Leaning Liberal, but my candidate seems to be a bit of a dud (Alberta-Foothills Tanya MacPherson). Kind of feels like she's a bit of a lame duck candidate in a strong CPC riding.

I can't really find out much about her on the net which is good and bad I guess. I may actually try to meet my candidate which is pretty ambitious for an apathetic (lazy) guy like myself.

Bunk · 09-26-2015, 04:41 PM

Confederation will be very close. Liberal Matt Grant is running a very good campaign and if he works as hard as an MP as he has as a candidate, he should be a good representative.

getbak · 09-26-2015, 05:12 PM

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Confederation will be very close. Liberal Matt Grant is running a very good campaign and if he works as hard as an MP as he has as a candidate, he should be a good representative.

If lawn signs are any indication, he's definitely leading in the Renfrew/Bridgeland area. I think I've only seen one CPC sign on a lawn, and I haven't seen a single NDP or Green sign on any lawns.

It would be very strange to live in Calgary and have a Liberal as both my MLA and my MP.

Ozy_Flame · 09-26-2015, 05:35 PM

So glad Kent Hehr is making it easy for me to vote for him. He was outside campaigning at 8 AM next to my office building the other day, and was chatting with everyone from my executive director to homeless people walking by. The dude is such a good people person.

Bunk · 09-26-2015, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

So glad Kent Hehr is making it easy for me to vote for him. He was outside campaigning at 8 AM next to my office building the other day, and was chatting with everyone from my executive director to homeless people walking by. The dude is such a good people person.

Best retail politician I've seen. He's everywhere and knows how to engage the voter.

Bunk · 09-26-2015, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by getbak

If lawn signs are any indication, he's definitely leading in the Renfrew/Bridgeland area. I think I've only seen one CPC sign on a lawn, and I haven't seen a single NDP or Green sign on any lawns.

It would be very strange to live in Calgary and have a Liberal as both my MLA and my MP.

In Hillhurst too. The NDP candidate Kirk Heuser came to my door today. Claimed he has an internal poll that says he has twice the level of support as Matt Grant. Uh huh.

Kjesse · 09-26-2015, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Bunk

In Hillhurst too. The NDP candidate Kirk Heuser came to my door today. Claimed he has an internal poll that says he has twice the level of support as Matt Grant. Uh huh.

I'm pretty sure he was a journalist at one time, and if its the same guy, I thought his writing was skewed and misleading a lot of the time. Seems like he hasn't changed.

getbak · 09-26-2015, 07:55 PM

Yes, Heuser was at CBC for a few years, and CTV before that.

sworkhard · 09-26-2015, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by rubecube

Are you sure about this? It would really surprise me if they didn't have a candidate in every riding.

You are correct. They must have found someone since the writ dropped. I haven't seen a single sign here for anyone but conservatives and greens.

Hart50 · 09-27-2015, 03:19 PM

I'm voting for the party who won't raise my taxes and will do the least amount of damage to the Alberta economy.
At this point, that party would appear to be the Conservatves.

Zarley · 09-27-2015, 09:38 PM

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If the Conservatives hadn't taken away my right to vote with C-24 I think I'd be voting strategically between the Liberals and NDP. I prefer the Liberals, and the Greens, but I would vote for whichever party would most likely take a seat away from the Harper government.

Bill C-24 has zero impact on your right to vote (unless you've had your citizenship stripped). The existing restriction barring five year expats from voting has been in place since 1993; the only recent development being the affirmation of the current policy by an Ontario Superior Court justice. The Conservatives had nothing to do with this.

#-3 · 09-27-2015, 09:55 PM

Oddly I'm considering voting for the Libs,

or throwing my vote away on the Greens, because I don't support my candidate, but I am somewhat impressed with Elizabeth May punching above her weight when she gets a chance to talk, and I'm OK with the other parties worrying about more of the popular vote drifting towards the greens.

I really didn't think that is where I would be at when this election started.

SebC · 09-27-2015, 11:01 PM

Not voting. Won't matter in my riding, and I'd have to do a mail-in. If I were to vote I'd be put in the position of choosing the lesser of two evils (because I don't want to cast a third-place Liberal vote) and that would be NDP.

PeteMoss · 09-28-2015, 06:52 AM

I'm in the ABC group this time around and in my riding that will be the NDP who will likely win. I've voted for the Conservatives almost exclusively in the past federal elections but can't stand the constant fear mongering and turn from what I consider Canadian ideals these past few years.

Plus I think that most of these parties have expiry dates when leading where things need to be changed just to keep everything in balance.

CliffFletcher · 09-28-2015, 09:13 AM

Can't bring myself to vote for Harper's Conservatives with the contempt he shows towards the media and any public forum that isn't carefully vetted and managed. When I was talking politics with American friends, I would always point to the Canadian custom of the Parliamentary scrum, where the PM has to face un-vetted questions from an unmanaged media scrum, as a sign that Canada has a more healthy democracy than the U.S., where the president only speaks in carefully managed press conferences. Can't say that any more. Just another anti-democratic tactic Harper has imported from the U.S.