Dear fellow Canadians,

[Max Headroom]

If you have not done so already, go out and vote.

Thank you,

Max

[Jack Flanders]

As a Yankee or what ever we're called, I'm curious about the election taking place in your home land and was wondering about your feelings about the process. In the US it has sucked the last two times, but am interested in the voting process in Canada.

[trisherina]

I put my X on a ballot. It was cold outside. Pretty much the same experience I have every election.

[madasacutsnake]

Doesn't the Queen make you vote? She makes us vote.

[karma_queen]

she doesn't make us. ha!

[madasacutsnake]

I reckon she hats us.

[Frieda]

is the queen online? i'm thinking INTERSTICK

[Hyakujo's Fox]

she probably has a jewel encrusted intersword

probably

for virtual knighting and the like

[Frieda]

an intersceptre

[Frieda]

i bet she wears her hooded leather intercloak of invisibility (+10 stealth)

[dinzdale]

Vote for Canada, eh? It's what it's aboot. :)




Never underestimete the power of a queen in a hooded leather cloak.
Just ask Craig Johnson.

[zenbabe]

Blame Canada.

[Max Headroom]

If i told you once, I told you a thousand times. The Canadian government has already formaly appoligized for Anne Murray and Celine Dion

[Max Headroom]

Thank you (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canadavotes2006/national/2006/01/23/20060124-turnout.html)

[dinzdale]

Please tell Canada thank you for Pammy from me personally. :)

[Madmack]

25 October 1993 - 69.6
2 June 1997 - 67.0
27 November 2000 - 64.1
28 June 2004 - 60.9

Historical voter turnout (http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/historical-turnout.html)

[Klynne]

25 October 1993 - 69.6
2 June 1997 - 67.0
27 November 2000 - 64.1
28 June 2004 - 60.9

Historical voter turnout (http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/historical-turnout.html)

Does Canada use an electoral college for President as we do?

[Jack Flanders]

Does Canada use an electoral college for President as we do?

Check out my previous question on this thread. No one really answered it , so I'm thinking, no.

[trisherina]

People vote for local MPs, or Members of Parliament, to represent them federally (you would have to be Canadian to appreciate the hilarity of federal representation as a notion). The MPs belong to parties, like Liberals, Conservatives, New Democrats. So by voting for your representative you are making a federal vote, in a general election, through deciding which MP "seats" go where. Often when it gets hard to decide, people will vote locally, but it will still have an effect federally.

In order to have a majority government, a party must hold 155 seats. This doesn't happen as often as one might like; when a party wins more seats than any other party but not enough for a majority, that constitutes a minority government. Minority governments can be easily forced to another general election by a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons, which happens when enough of the opposing parties' members disagree with some notion of the party in power -- enough that the opposing parties' members will band together and force this issue of non-confidence, and hence a general election. More on minority vs. majority governments on MapleLeafweb (http://www.mapleleafweb.com/features/democracy/minority/ways-to-form.html).

All this means that we have governments who don't get much chance to govern, because they are awfully freaking busy trying not to piss off the other parties too much. Sometimes this can be bad; for instance, when the party in power has a useful or interesting agenda but is afraid to implement it. Sometimes this can be good; for instance, when the party in power has let its ideology go too far in a certain direction and the other parties can provide checks and balances.

[sparticle]

How very different from here.

Here, the biggest liar with the most money and the greatest amount of corporate influence gets to rule absolutely and uncontested, and gets to choose the state religion.

We call it "democracy".

[Jack Flanders]

DITTO :mad: DITTO :mad: DITTO!!!! :mad: DAMN IT!! :mad:

[trisherina]

You're welcome.