I was hoping to see both at my all-candidates meeting, but only the M-L showed.
:eek: What happened?
Me too. I always feel so irrepressably smug after I cast my vote.
The NDP seems to have the best women. But then I’m biased. My mother was one of them. 
Um… you don’t get milk in bags in the West, either.
You Ontario freaks.
Hey! It freezes well.
My gosh, that’s like a fundamental truth in life. It’s like the sky being blue and the sun setting in the west. Amazing. I wonder why that is?
I’m referring to the milk bag thing, not the Ontarian freak thing. Although, I suppose the rest of the country would argue, but why bother? We are the best.
Eh, I don’t know. He’s kinda… growing on me.
Still orange, though, all the way. And my candidate lost–Joe Volpe was a lock on my riding from the beginning. Lousy nuthead. :mad: 
He (the Marxist-Leninist) frankly and thoughtfully answered each of the questions posed to him. I can see why he keeps losing: this is not appropriate behaviour for a politician! The Conservative guy was basically a paper candidate. It is all Red and Orange in my riding.
I might do advance polling next time, this will give me even more time to be smug.
Wow. Colour me envious. (Nothing against my own mother, of course.)
This is why us Canadians were so stunned when you guys took so long and had so much kerfuffle about that election (I think you may remember the one). We were all thinking “How hard is it to count X’s?” Since then, we have learned that you can make it extremely difficult, indeed. 
Raygun, I remember having milk in bags for a short time in Saskatchewan in my childhood. You had to get a special pitcher to put them in.
Aw, crap.
This was a hard election decision for me. Worried about the vote being split between NDP and Liberal to the Conservatives’ benefit. Added to that, not really enthusiastic about the NDP candidate in my riding.
Ended up holding my nose and voting Liberal. Now that the Conservative candidate finished a distant third, with the NDP + Libs outrageously close, I feel vaguely stupid.
Things are better now for BC, from my POV. (NDP gained a few seats.)
Federally, though… ugh.
wrings hands
Oh, almost forgot:
We used to be able to buy milk in bags here in B.C. until the late eighties. I wish you still could – I hate the amount of space those cartons take up in the bin.
I remember having milk in bags whenever I went out to Nova Scotia to visit relatives.
Mmm bagged milk and oat cakes…
Was an easy win for the Conservative in my riding, which is kinda annoying since (as I said before) he was hardly around. (Yes, it was Anders).
In the 1979 election, at the University of Toronto the Communists set up a table at one side of the western entrance to Sid Smith. The Marxist-Lenninists set up a table at the other side of that same entrance.
It wasn’t long before they started beating the crap out of each other. Sometimes the campus police would haul them off,a nd sometimes they would take off when they saw the police coming, but being determined types, they would be back the next day, duking it out.
Conservative Joe Who won a minority, which if I recall correctly was the last time the Conservatives won a minority up until now.
I wonder if for the present election there were some Communists and Marxist-Lennists bashing away at each other in service of their country and the proletariat (or whatever it is that they serve).
There does appear to be some heavy duty eletion rigging in Nova Scotia.
Well, maybe not. But there is at least some significant organized crime concerning ballot box stuffing in Nova Scotia.
Well, maybe not. But there have been a couple of hosers who have grabbed and run away with ballot boxes, only to be caught: http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-ballot-car20060123.html
Now how’s that for a major election scandal! (Hey, we’re doing the best we can, but we just don’t have election fixing down pat yet.)
Never trust an eighteenth century fur trader. Shifty lot.
Like a fungus ? 
To come back to the CCP (M-L) thing and other commies, in my days (gather round kids, grampa detop is telling another one of his boring stories) there was 3 Maoist parties (1 following the Chinese line, 1 following the Albanian line and 1 nobody was really sure who they were following), 2 Trotskyist parties (really Byzantine hair-splitting differences between the two) 1 traditional communist party (following the Moscow line). The Maoists hated each other and were ready to inflict serious bodily harm on each other and worse on the Trotskyists. The Trotskyists were laid-back and the Moscow liners were invisible. How things have changed in 30 years !
I just realized this about the results. (maybe I’m slow.) It might not be the most likely situation, but if…
the tories allied (for some strange reason) with the NDP…
The liberals allied in opposition with the Bloq…
Then both factions would have 154 seats and Andre Arthur would have the deciding vote.
That’s kinda scary.
These last two elections really stand out to me as ones where people voted more AGAINST a party than FOR a party.
Says something about the state of politics in Canada.
What about the PC death march?
In my view it seems that there is a large amount of political inertia when it comes to federal elections in Canada. Until a party reaches a point where the “electoral friction” fails it’ll stay in office.