OK. First of all I am from Alberta, and my beliefs are conservative but let me express my general opinion. If this sounds biased to any of you who read this i appologize but i really feel the need to vent my frustration and im sure a few others here have done so as well. Let me start with what i think about Harper getting the OK from G.G. to shut down parliament until the new year. Why is everyone(the socialists) so beefed about this? Sure you can say he's running and hiding and he probably is but what else would you do? If this coalition idea is the real deal then yes he is just prolonging his problems but this was the best course of action. Everyone in their respective parties will have some time to think about this and develop a gameplan. Everything in this country happens to fast(i.e. random elections) and i could talk about how a 2 party system would be better but that will just cause an argument so i wont. Second thing is everyone complaining about Harper essentially saying its illegal for the other parties to do this. Technically under the rules of parliament theres no problem but to me its morally illegal. Yes we voted and we gave them a minority government but we still voted. The only morally responsible thing to do is have another election(another waste of $300 million) but is it ever REALLY a democracy unless you let the people decide? From most of the folks ive talked to(who didn't vote before), they are really considering it now and maybe this is the "wake-up call" we all needed. How do you increase voter turnout? Do something immoral that the people will actually take notice of. Third thing is...and ive always said this, how can you have a "democracy" when you have a provincial party acting nationally? The fact the Bloc Quebecois even exist is a testament to how useless our political system is. Do you honestly think we'd have so many minority governments if we just had 3 national parties. Granted the liberals would win everytime but it would be more interesting and things would actually get done. Fourth thing doesn't have much to do with the current situation but whatever happened to national referendums? Everyone in our society is becoming so accepting these days without challenging or really even caring about the values we all grew up with. Of course im talking about the moral issues that make use choose political sides if there are no other reasons for us to do so...again, let the people decide. And really IT IS moral issues that should be the backbone of what party a certain person represents. When you have half the liberals voting against same sex marriage and half the conservatives voting for it something is definetly wrong. You also can't tell me those conservatives voting for it had the majority consent of their riding to do so. Of course my numbers are exxagerated but i hope you see what I mean. LET the people decide...on everything, THATS democracy. Not having seperatist parties that have no business being there, not creating a coalition to topple the current government without asking the people, and not having so many parties that everyone distributes the vote just enough so that we have a minority government who doesnt get anything done (not that they can't or arent trying, but not being allowed to because everyone else sets aside their differences and teams up just to spite the minority regaurdless of what the issue at hand is)
Just my two cents.
