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yeaht hey did thank god! better choice then the green or ndp

I didn't vote. My excuse is (and it true )that I lost all my identification with my wallet on Sunday, and I still cant find it.

I voted Green.

I normally vote Liberal, but seeing how they totally don't deserve my vote after the last couple of years, I went elsewhere. I didn't even make my decision until I was standing in the booth. There was no way in hell Harper was getting my vote, though.

The Conservatives knew it would be a minority, as did everybody else. That's why the big promises were made. They were all making promises they knew they didn't have to keep. We may see a handful of those 190+ programs actually make it through the house. The rest were empty, and were inteded to be that way.

We won't see an election for a few years yet. The Liberals need to trasfer power, then elect a new leader, then get that leader some face time. The public needs to get to know the Liberal leader and see him stand up for some major issues in the house before they would ever move for an election. Even still, they need the NDP and the Bloc to join in, which won't be easy. The NDP won't be pushing for the polls for any reason, since they are now stronger than they have been in decades. If the Liberals get stronger again, and the Conservative trend continues, the NDP know they will lose a lot of seats in the next election. The Bloc are indifferent, and even if the Grits and NDP jump the gun, they still need the Bloc.

So prepare for four years of absolutely nothing getting done (just like the last minority gov. but worse, since the right has an even smaller lead than the left that just lost power). You can count on four years of massive spending, as the house spins its wheels to get no where.

why would you not vote for harper? and why vote for green? what a waist of a vote, i strongly agree with harpers agenda, for example joining missle defence, and dropping kyoto, as well as lowering gst...if green ran this country all buisnesses would be run out and we would be a 3rd world country in a matter of years....... i would like to hear your reasoning in not voting for harper...

i would like to hear your reasoning in not voting for harper...

I dislike his hardline views, like gay marriage, that he seemed to be adamant about in the last election, but this time around he went soft on, or opted out of giving any real answers at all. He's too friendly with American Republicans for my liking, and, above all, he has no problem telling the Canadian people that if he were in power at the time, we'd be sending our troops to Iraq. I didn't like the BS promises he made. 190+ new programs (and he wants to shrink government? Yeah, right.) that all cost money, billions in some cases, yet lower GST, and eventually get rid of it altogether. Which, I might add, was a conservative tax to start with. If you increase spending but decrease income, you put yourself in debt.......... pretty much exactly like the last time the Conservatives got in power. Plus, I'm a leftist, so why would I vote for the Right?

I do like his support of the border guards to be armed. I like the Conservative tendancy to support a respectable military. I don't like Conservative tendancy to use it needlessly, or offensively.

No vote is wasted. The only wasted vote is one that isn't cast. The Green party will never gain power in Canada, and I knew my riding wasn't going to win. But for every vote cast in Canada, that party is awarded X amount of dollars to fund further development of the party for the future. Though I don't expect the green party to ever gain power, I do think that a few Green seats in the house would have a very positive impact on our country.

I like their proactive stance on health care. Make healthier citizens rather than pour more money into an already too expensive health care system. Higher taxes on things like Cigarettes, booze, and junk food is a way to lower the amount of people using the health care system, rather than just provide more doctors, and pay more to support these needlessly unhealthy people draining the economy.

It's a different way of thinking, and I think we can all agree, the system needs to come at things from a new perspective in order to grow and improve. They are also the only major party in Canada that isn't completely corrupt, or at least partially.

Another reason I voted Green was to give the Liberals a slap in the arse. What are my options? Vote NDP? I've seen what the NDP can do. BC anyone? Conservative? No, they are fundamentally different in their mindset than I am.

So I didn't vote Green because I'm some tree hugging flake. I actually did take my time and consider the choices (Yes, I even considered voting Torry). To me, it was a matter of principle. I voted for those who I believed in to make the most positive change.

So, why did you vote Conservative?

So you like gay marriage? I don't . . . I think they should have called it a civil union or partnership or something else like every other country in the world that legalized it did, but I certainly would not have called it marriage. The supreme court couldn't rule on the subject . . . so Paul marshalled his troops and ordered them to vote the party line . . . with the NDP. Harper says he will have a free vote on the issue . . . you obviously don't like free.

Liberals have been taxing us to death for a decade . . .

hence 14 billion dollars in Ottawa from just last year. Do you like to pay the highest taxes in the G8? I don't . . . .
Lets talk about Iraq . . . Harper said he would support the US declsion on Iraq . . . there were no troops to send . . . they were already in Afganistan, sent by Libs. What do you have against freeing 26 million people from a brutal dictator?

They had a better voter turnout 80% than we did in Canada! Sadam was also financing famlies of suicide bombers and had trained over 8000 Al Quada terrorists.

The US is the greatest country on the planet, Canada has digressed in the last 13 years under liberal control.

Healthcare 30th in the world, high taxes, crime (property crime double that of US), out of control big government(our civil service in Ottawa is the same size as the US . . . we have 1/10 of the population), and unprecedented corruption in the federal govt.
The Liberal party has moved so far to the left in the last 30 years it is hard to tell them from the Socialist NDP's . . . . last year 100,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in eastern Canada, Woodwards, Eaton's and now the Bay have either gone broke or were bought up by US concerns.

The Liberals said they would eliminate the GST, they didn't . . . Harper says he will reduce in to 6% and then to 5% . . . he will! They Liberals said they would give us govt daycare . . . 12 years later we are still waiting . . . but why would you want the govt to look after your kids???? They can't run Medicare, they can't run a Gun Registry . . . what makes you think they could look after your kids????

The Scandinavian countries along with the US are the top five countries in the world. Denmark has just re-elected its second Conservative Govt. Sweden and Finland have been moving to the right for over a decade. The Scandinavian Countries have the best educated populations on the planet, lead the world in many high tech areas. cell phones, bridge const, off-s oil, safest autos, and envorimnental technologies.

Of course you wouldn't want LOW TAXES, ACCOUNTABILITY, A MILITARY THAT COULD ACTUALLY PROTECT OUR BORDERS, JUDGES THAT WOULD ACTUALLY PUT THE CRIMINALS IN JAIL. A federal govt that looked after the federal issues and stayed out of the Provinces hair so they could look after their responsibilities. It seems to me that a lot of Canadians are Stuckonstupid . . . .