Let's hope this works, eh?

[thebitterguy]

[Poll #658382]

If this does not work, it won't get fixed 'till tonight. If it does, this paragraph will magically disappear tonight.

Edit: I COULD have removed that paragraph, I just didn't want to.

Comments

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

You don't have the correct answer available for the last Question:
AACEV Party of Canada - Ms Liz White
Canadian Action - Ms. Constance (Connie) Fogal
First Peoples National Party - Ms. Barbara Wardlaw
Marxist-Leninist - Ms. Sandra L. Smith
Progressive Canadian Party - Ms. Tracy Parsons

That's five.

Ref: http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=pol&document=index&dir=par&lang=e&textonly=false#CAP

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I cut the question off when I pasted it in. Thanks, though.

[kaijugal.livejournal.com]

Um. Justin, there are five female party leaders. ^_^;

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I cut off the right answer when I pasted the quiz in.

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

Hey Justin,

Just tell them you define "party leader" as someone whose whole party will get more than 5 votes.

Then most of your questions are correct.

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

P.S.

I'd vote Marxist-Lenninist, but they're splitters!

Splitters!

(I explainded this to the local Conservative canidate when he cornered me in the hallway of my condo building the other day. I took to it poorly, and started in on him about why the Communist parties split and asked him if he knew why they would do something so foolish. I then told him I'd come to Canada from the US so that I could vote Communist, because it is time the people took the power. At that point he ran away from me.)

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Although I come from a relatively "smalltown" environment (St Catharines is well-known for stodgy traditionalism) for the last three elections we've had a Marxist-Leninist candidate (and a CHP, and a Green) but never a Communist.

Although I've never had the desire to vote Communist in 22 years of election entitlement, I really do like there emblem. The wheat and the cog inside the maple leaf? It's a well done emblem, there's no denying it.


In comparison, the ML emblem is decidedly ho-hum.

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

Gotta hand it to the Commies, they know iconography.

Hey, you should run for them! I'll bet the folks at work would LOVE that.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Roffle.

I have the "Communist Party (http://waiwode.livejournal.com/319557.html)" wallpaper up at work. It gets ... well, let's say it doesn't drive guys as crzy-go-nuts as my habit of referring to everything as "The Peoples' X" from a couple years ago. "The Peoples' Truck" almost got me stabbed.

Being held at knife-point by people you've been egging on incessently all summer ... it's good fun.

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

Then the answer would be zero, which makes me foolish for asking the question.

[dogbreathcanada.livejournal.com]

No Googling here ... so we'll see how I did without the help of a search engine. :)

[thebitterguy]

You missed the Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada, but otherwise did well.

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

We seriously have a Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada? Good lord...

[thebitterguy]

Ayep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Alliance_Environment_Voters_Party_of_Canada

Canadian Politics is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't worry -- I thought the Monarchists were a party.

OTOH I've only lived here for a year, so....

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Btw, you fucked up the last one - the correct answer is five.

Just in case y'hadn't heard.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I think I'd read of this on Wikipedia but had forgotten. My wrong. :-(

At least I got the number of separatist parties right...?

[thebitterguy]

Yep, two. Western Block & Bloc Quebecois.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the Western Block's existence came as a small shock, especially after I learned who leads them.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, that's a nice list of client's he's had. I wonder if he's defended any actual nazis.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I was a little surprised. Not that there were so many women, but that there were so many parties!

Doug.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was too. I mean, I knew there was more in Canuckistania than our lousy bipartisan system here in Amerika, but had no idea there were so many with actual shares of the pie up there!

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Walt Lastewka LIB 9792 36.9%
Rick Dykstra CON 9304 35.06%
Jeff Burch NDP 5956 22.44%
Jim Fannon GRN 1176 4.43%
Bill Bylsma CHP 260 0.98%
Elaine Couto ML 49 0.18%

Here's my riding at this moment (129 0f 244 polling stations reporting). As you can see, as far as realistic "shares of the pie" go, the Marxist-Leninists and Christian Heritage Party aren't really in the same league as "The Big Four," one of which (the BQ) isn't allowed by its own mandate to run outside of Quebec.

[thebitterguy]

Did the Greens actually get a candidate elected last night? I heard murmurings to that effect.

Shit, that was a close riding up there.

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

Yea, as others have pointed out we only have 4 parties that ever get seats -- and one of them is only in Quebec. Which really gives us 3 choices rather than two.

But if you want to throw your vote away in America, there are actually more than two parties. The Libertarians, The Greens, and the Constitution party all had a theoretical chance of getting a President in 2004. (Ha!)

Though one must wonder at the fairness of a system that doesn't allow the New York State Right to Life Party a chance to get a national president elected from their own.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Yar.

See, I made an assumption (bad me, I know), that since there was such active discussion of the other groups, they were actual contenders. Here, we've got way more than just the few "alternatives" that you mentioned, but nobody takes them seriously, so they're not discussed like they're real.