Tuesday, November 29, 2005

On the impossibility to vote in Canada

Canadians are in a political catch 22. The Liberal Party occupies most if not all the middle ground of the political spectrum, but they're caught in a corruption scandal. As a result, Canadians can't vote for the Liberals, but can't vote for another party either. There's the Conservatives, what some may call liberals in the US, but they're too far right for the Ontarians and Quebecois. And then there's the New Democratic Party, seen too far left and having a hard time getting its member to go through a real modernization. In Quebec, voters can also vote for the federal version of the separatist party (indeed) and that's what they do.

Now that the Liberal-NDP coalition government has been defeated by a no-confidence motion, Canadians will have to face this dilemma once more. My prediction (as poor as usual and based on data pre-dating the campaign) is that they will reelect the same parliament: a relative majority of Liberals, then Conservatives second, a lot of Bloc Québécois in Québec and then some NDP here and there.

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