Zannen, Canada - Conservatives to reintroduce copyright legislation - Comments

Emoemen wrote:Quote:As long

Pep — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:20:49 -0700

Emoemen wrote:

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As long as it wasn't to spite me!

No, I voted on October 5 and I voted for my ideology and to keep the tar sands open but to be perfectly honest with you I'm not to happy with this strategic voting thing.

Just out of curiosity, since you're in his riding and have mentioned opposition (or at least scepticism) towards the copyright legislation yourself, have you considered talking to Jim Prentice directly? I mean, as a supporter and constituent, you may have better luck getting communicating to him than the rest of us "panicking wackos" across the country.

My vote will likely be going

Buster Blader 126 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:10:35 -0700

My vote will likely be going to the NDP or the Green Party this year. I'm not liking the two major parties this year for various reasons, at least enough to not make me vote for either of them (otherwise I'd probably vote Liberal).

And I wanted my first time voting to "count," too...

I'm going with NDP. Are some

CyberDramon — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:12:22 -0700

I'm going with NDP. Are some of there ideas good, like the extra $1,000 for students? Yes.

Are some of their ideas hopeless train wrecks, like the $10/hour minimum wage + taxing large corporations? Obviously

(I'm taking economics, and economics says higher minimum wage + higher corporate taxes = the average guy losing his job. Just an increase of $1.25 an hour over a 160-hour month is $200 extra per month per full-time employee. So even 50 employees could cost an extra $10,000 per month (and then you realize that employers are supposed to put 10% of whatever wage you get -our of the company's pocket- into certain funds for your retirement, and such, and you see a company with 50 full-time employees suddenly losing $11,000 per month because of the pay increase, or roughly $132,000 per year. And that's just a small business, *without* extra taxes.)

So why am I voting for the NDP? To break the back of the Conservatives and Liberals. If we have a minority government -Any minority government- there's less chance of something getting screwed up (in theory, at least, as long as the parties that would have to work together don't like each other).

Green Party is good, and definitely worth keeping around, but I'm not sure they'd be willing to play hardball with some issues to save Canadian society...

The Greens are basically

writerpatrick — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:21:04 -0700

The Greens are basically trying to play the same game the NDP have in the past. They know they can't win but they might be able to be part of an alliance to help a minority government. And there's a good chance that the Conservatives would choose to go with the Green party over the NDP.

They also feel they can get votes by backing viewpoints the major parties can't, like opposing a copyright bill, because they know they won't have to take any action on it. If they actually had a chance of becoming a major party, they couldn't afford that.

Pep wrote:If the Greens get

Thedormin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:27:47 -0700

Pep wrote:

If the Greens get 10% of the popular vote, they get their campaign funding back. That's a fairly good incentive to vote for them if you live in a hopeless riding.

That's pretty much how I'm looking at it because even though the Liberal in my riding was found to be a crook, he'll still win because he's got the Italian name and gives to the "right" Italian groups that are in my area.

I'm also playing the "lesser of all evils" game and it seems that this time around the Greens are it.

Quote:As long as it wasn't

Emoemen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:22:25 -0700

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As long as it wasn't to spite me!

No, I voted on October 5 and I voted for my ideology and to keep the tar sands open but to be perfectly honest with you I'm not to happy with this strategic voting thing.

My idea of voting

Puzzled1 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:34:33 -0700

My idea of voting strategically is throwing my vote away on the party in last place for 2 reasons. Firstly, I don't pay attention to the campaign or which leaders are backing which policies. Secondly, if a party hasn't been in power before they would have much more to prove and much more of a reason to actually follow through with their promises. They're stupid reasons but at least my vote still counts. Ahh democracy!

As long as it wasn't to

Pep — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:14:52 -0700

As long as it wasn't to spite me!

I voted for Jim Prentice and

Emoemen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:49 -0700

I voted for Jim Prentice and the Conservatives.

If the Greens get 10% of the

Pep — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:12:40 -0700

If the Greens get 10% of the popular vote, they get their campaign funding back. That's a fairly good incentive to vote for them if you live in a hopeless riding.

AirMaster wrote:I vote for

Dayspring — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:54:58 -0700

AirMaster wrote:

I vote for Liberal at pretty much every election...but doesn't really change anything for me since Duceppe is my MP.

I hope others here aren't stuck in a party's leader's territory. Especially one they don't like, since it shows how useless one's vote is :/

Like you, I'm in Montreal. I have no idea who to vote for. I'm most impressed with the Green Party this time around (regarding the issues that most concern me), but... it's the GREEN PARTY. At best they're fighting for fourth place. :(

I doubt it will have any

writerpatrick — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:13:34 -0700

I doubt it will have any real effect on the election. The economy is too big an issue right now. And voting Liberal isn't going to do any good because they'll just push their own. Remember C-60? At least C-61 allowed for things that C-60 didn't.

If they could get Geist involved in the design then it wouldn't be too bad. The copyright law does need a reform, it's just a matter of doing it right.

I vote for Liberal at pretty

AirMaster — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:15:02 -0700

I vote for Liberal at pretty much every election...but doesn't really change anything for me since Duceppe is my MP.

I hope others here aren't stuck in a party's leader's territory. Especially one they don't like, since it shows how useless one's vote is :/

Conservatives to reintroduce copyright legislation

Pep — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:48:37 -0700

Not only does the Conservative Party intend to reintroduce even more, accountability-free copyright legislation if they are elected next week, they also had the audacity to promote it as part of their party platform.

My friends, if you like the internet or anything even remotely associated with it, vote strategically. Do I really need to say more?