# Where you live, and for whom you're voting (The Canadian Edition) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258 "2004-05-26T23:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258/41 "2004-05-30T18:03:41Z")
> [@ruadh](#): > > Can somebody tell me about this Pankiw person? What exactly has he done that inspires such loathing? Oh, he does his best to inflame racial tensions between whites and natives. [Here](http://www.jimpankiw.com/News/Press_Releases/press_releases_2003_19.html) is a fairly typical press release for him. I’ll quote a couple good bits: > [@](#): > > “They [the Liberals] are dividing Canadians against each other by attaching conditions of race or language to their social policy schemes; the most vile of which is the system of special privileges for Indians.” > > Pankiw was referring to race-based government laws, which grant Indians tax-exempt status, lenient Criminal Code sentencing provisions, racial hiring quotas, and special fishing and hunting privileges that are denied to non-Indians. He’s not particularly shy about distorting things, obviously. Tax-exempt status and special fishing and hunting priveleges are treaty obligations. I suppose the government could renege on them in the interests of “equality”, though to be consistent I’d think we should then give all the land back. He goes on to describe various affirmative action-type polices as constituting “neo-apartheid”. He also thinks that bilingual hiring policies for civil servants are racist (biased against anglophones, don’t you know), and that the Notwithstanding Clause should be invoked to override court decisions in favour of same sex marriage. ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258/42 "2004-05-30T18:57:49Z")
Mississauga - and I’m still undecided, but leaning towards NDP. As a side note, I think \*\* Sunspace\*\* is planning a Toronto area dopefest after the election? Is that right? ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258/43 "2004-05-30T19:22:48Z")
Winnipeg - St Boniface Conservative ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258/44 "2004-05-30T21:28:23Z")
\ Yep, TronnaDope in late June/early July. Time to bump the planning thread. When I find it again. \ ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258/45 "2004-06-01T07:36:46Z")
Here are the standings so far.I counted people who said they were ‘leaning’ or ‘probably’ going to vote for a party as voting for that party, even if they said they were undecided. Liberal: 2 Conservatives: 9 NDP: 13 Bloc: 0 Green: 2 …and wouldn’t THAT be an interesting parliament! 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live-and-for-whom-youre-voting-the-canadian-edition/247258.md?page=2)