"The Liberals played us beautifully!"

[betsy]

That's the bitter lament of the Green Party Deputy Leader on Mike Duffy today, after he was asked if he felt the Green Party was taken for a ride by the Liberals. "We were naive," he said. There are numerous strategic voting sites on the net, and as it turned out, these are managed by Liberal staffs. They are after the Green supporters. He denied reports that Elizabeth May told the Greens to vote Liberal.

The Green Party Deputy Leader implored Green supporters to stay with the Green because they need the money the party earns for each voter.

[Alta4ever]

I'm surprised this post has been ignored, I wonder if their will be any actual swaps or if they are just engineering more votes for one party would be interesting for someone to really look into this. BUt then who would throw their vote to a party on a negative, even if they have nothing to offer that person or riding? What ever happened to voting for a party and a platform?

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[independent]

The anything but harper was started by the premier of Newfoundland. The Liberals are not the only party that does not want Harper in. A lot of voters I know would not even be voting if it was not too make sure Harper does not get in.

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[noahbody]

I'm surprised this post has been ignored, I wonder if their will be any actual swaps or if they are just engineering more votes for one party would be interesting for someone to really look into this. BUt then who would throw their vote to a party on a negative, even if they have nothing to offer that person or riding? What ever happened to voting for a party and a platform?

I agree. All online websites should be audited to ensure those who are offering to switch are actual people. Don't forget this is the party of Joe Volpe. Some of these people might be dead.

[Alta4ever]

The anything but harper was started by the premier of Newfoundland. The Liberals are not the only party that does not want Harper in. A lot of voters I know would not even be voting if it was not too make sure Harper does not get in.

What if you the candidate that you threw away your vote with was actually worse turned out to be worse then the one that you had actually wanted to vote for? Was it worth it then?

[Bryan]

The anything but harper was started by the premier of Newfoundland. The Liberals are not the only party that does not want Harper in. A lot of voters I know would not even be voting if it was not too make sure Harper does not get in.

That goes both ways though. I know a lot of people who probably would not be voting either if it were not to make sure we don't end up with a Carbon Tax.

[betsy]

I'm surprised this post has been ignored, I wonder if their will be any actual swaps or if they are just engineering more votes for one party would be interesting for someone to really look into this. BUt then who would throw their vote to a party on a negative, even if they have nothing to offer that person or riding? What ever happened to voting for a party and a platform?

The Liberals are well-known for corruptions. This only shows nothing has changed! Only getting uglier for now it's tampering with the voting process.

[betsy]

The Deputy Leader named one specific website that's manned by the Liberals. Vote for the Environment.

[Riverwind]

I agree. All online websites should be audited to ensure those who are offering to switch are actual people.

Who would pay for such auditing? The government? Absolute nonsense. People silly enough to engage in vote swapping deserve what they get.

[Rue]

That goes both ways though. I know a lot of people who probably would not be voting either if it were not to make sure we don't end up with a Carbon Tax.

Do you know anything about the Carbon tax? For a guy who is imrpessed with canned messages on his phone from Stephen Harper, I must ask, did you even research what it is?

[Rue]

The Liberals are well-known for corruptions. This only shows nothing has changed! Only getting uglier for now it's tampering with the voting process.

And of course Brian Mulroney was as virgin. Give it a rest with the selectivity. Harper engaged in a pre-election spending spree to get votes no different then any other incumbent using the office to try corupt people. He was not against breaking the election law and calling an election. he had no problem using taxpayer's money to send out mailouts from his MP's that clearly violated the law and were designed to serve as electioneering brochures.

Harper has demonstrated he will scream law and order to get a vote but will break it when it does not suit him. This is a man who openly threatened Judges who did not make decisions he liked including Supreme Court of Canada Judges.

Harper has engaged in the exact same questionable practices when he was in the opposition or in his citizen's movement he used to scream and have tantrums over.

Got news for you, all politicians have fungus.

[Smallc]

Do you know anything about the Carbon tax? For a guy who is imrpessed with canned messages on his phone from Stephen Harper, I must ask, did you even research what it is?

You don't admit that at least half of Canadians (more I believe) are opposed to it.....I can't even imagine what the costs would be to my parents business....and there is nothing we could do to reduce it.

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[Argus]

I agree. All online websites should be audited to ensure those who are offering to switch are actual people. Don't forget this is the party of Joe Volpe. Some of these people might be dead.

One of them was even advertising on the radio the other day. I must have heard 4 or 5 ads in the morning alone. They sounded like Liberal Party ads, but then said something like "paid for by borg" or something or other. I didn't get the name. Didn't even give the web site address - which I thought was wierd. All it said was "google vote for environment." There is a web site called votefoenvironment.ca which is run by a guy who used to work for a Liberal MP and a BC Liberal cabinet minister. I sure hope they get audited for how much they spent on third party advertising.

[Argus]

Harper has demonstrated he will scream law and order to get a vote but will break it when it does not suit him. This is a man who openly threatened Judges who did not make decisions he liked including Supreme Court of Canada Judges.

I'm betting you don't have any kind of cite to back up this extraordinary - and imaginary - claim.

[Argus]

Do you know anything about the Carbon tax? For a guy who is imrpessed with canned messages on his phone from Stephen Harper, I must ask, did you even research what it is?

I did and have posted several times about the problems involved. I don't believe you've ever challenged any of those posts either.

Just to start with, did you ever pause to consider that a carbon tax imposed on goods made in Canada makes them more expensive compared to imports - which don't have to pay a carbon tax - and also makes them more expensive for exports - where they can't as easily pass the price rise along to the consumers? And that this would come at a time when the manufacturing sector is already in deep trouble?