Bsed solely on the ridiculous amount of commercials the Conservative Government have put out in the last year I'll be voting for someone else.
The 80's style anti-marijuana ads grind my gears the most. Massive waste of money.
Then the oh so terrible "Just not ready" series of ads. Yeah, waste some more of those tax dollars on crappy commercials.
Lets also all be thankful Harper wasn't able to get the TPP deal done before he called the election, if only that was the case for the china "fair trade" deal...
"fair elections act" .. hahahah
can we all just agree to get rid of harper? please?
Present me with a choice that's not Trudeau or Mulclaire, and you have a deal.
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2015 election. Your choice between the one with the bad social policy, the one with the bad fiscal policy, or the one who represents the worst of both.
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Present me with a choice that's not Trudeau or Mulclaire, and you have a deal.
It seems you really know a lot about him...
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Some would say he knows as much about Mulcair as Muclair knows about our corporate taxes.
Bazinga!
But really, those who zero in on his misstep on economic minutiae were never going to vote for the NDP anyway.
That misstep cost him a grand total of zero votes.
Doesn't look like you could bother to spell his name correctly either.
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But really, those who zero in on his misstep on economic minutiae were never going to vote for the NDP anyway.
That misstep cost him a grand total of zero votes.
Doesn't look like you could bother to spell his name correctly either.
Haha what a fail on my part, I don't disagree the only votes it may cost are from fiscal Liberal voters, who are thinking of moving one way or the other.
I'm with the posters above who think d) none of the above is best option right now but will be voting Conservative because I disagree with most of the NDP's platform and Trudeau is a phony running on his dad's name not substance.
I still wish Marc Garneau would have got the Liberal leadership, he would most likely have my vote sealed up and I have a feeling if he was leader the Liberals would be leading in the polls right now.
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spoke to an NDP candidate who we know through our kids' school. Just a classy, classy person. Really impressed with her and her husband. Running in a different part of Edmonton. This is the kind of candidate that I wish there were more of every election and with every party. But I digress.
I actually wonder if the PCs have given up on Edmonton in terms of winning/holding onto seats. Their fundraising is in the tanks in many of their ridings and the NDP wave is still riding high. PCs might be hoping that a strong national campaign will carry them to victory.
The narrative coming out of Edmonton that PC candidates will have to face is this: When is Edmonton going to get its share of federal money. Calgary recieved close to $2.1 Billion in the last 2 weeks for LRT and a ring road. Edmonton recieved about ~$1.2 million for upgrades to a YMCA etc. So to put it another way: For every $2,000 Calgary recieved, Edmonton recieved $1.00. Even when they did contribute previously to Edmonton LRT lines, they gave 25% of the cost, where in Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto they gave 33%. Edmonton city council will make sure this is an election issue on the front of Edmonton voters' minds.
Edmonton swung hard left provincially with a perception that they were tired of playing second fiddle to Calgary with provincial money. The cash doled out the last 2 weeks certainly hasn't done anything to change that perception. In fact it only reinforces it and locks in those voters who have that near the top of their list. As it stands for me, my willingness to donate to a PC campaign this election will be measured against how credible I determine the actual candidate to be as well as how much my municipal taxes will increase to pay for the LRT expansion $$$ that the Feds will not be kicking in.
Laurie Hawn is not running again. Neither is James Rajotte. Both were great candidates and well respected. Peter Goldring is not running again, but that might actually increase the chances that the PCs win the seat because Goldring is as close to Anders as Edmonton will get.
The Liberals have a couple of high profile municipal leaders running for them, but both come off as "we went Liberal when they were leading in the polls, but we really wish we'd run NDP". That is going to hurt them.
NDP have a beach head in Edmonton with Linda Duncan being the incumbent in the University area. The NDP is also very well organized with a lot of sweat equity in their volunteers. They attracted some pretty good candidates as well, with the person I mentioned above being the type they are getting. There is a guy named Piquette who is also apparently quite the coup as well.
I am reluctant to say it, but it would come as no surprise if the NDP didn't take a majority of Edmonton's seats.
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I really want to see Harper finally get the boot, he's done so much to tarnish Canada's reputation at home and abroad, but the liberals keep electing terrible leader after terrible leader, it's like they don't really want to get back in charge. NDP seems like the only viable option to get Harper out, but they would need to run an incredibly strong campaign with a sensible message to counter all the radical policy talk from the other sides
Best case scenario I see actually unfolding is a Harper minority, but I wouldn't at all be surprised to see that a-hole get another majority simply due to how weak his competition is
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Eleven week election campaign is ludicrous. Shame on the conservatives.
I'm in Calgary centre. No way I'm voting conservative. Really dislike Kent Hehr and the liberals. Voting NDP federally is death to Alberta. Having a provincial NDP government is fine as they are looking out for the interests of Albertans, but have no faith that they would do the same federally. I'll likely vote green, numbers were quite respectable in Calgary center last election.
