NDP ahead of Conservatives

[Rwede]

lol well because of the internet , more and more of the people in these countries are seeing how things can be better, china is starting to get unions now ect ect, manufacturing will move back to north america once things have evened out, but at what cost to the people that live here and for how long.

Unions? Uh-oh, China is screwed now. Productivity will drop like a rock.

[D suzuki]

lol well its true though i talk online sometimes to a person that lives and works in china, they had no idea for longtime what they were missing out on, but now, thanks to the internet, they are waking up

[John500]

Sure, if we want to go the Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal route, lets get the NDP in nationally.

[Fritzthecat]

Yep thank God for Harper!

Imagine if we had a PM that was trying to get people working. Vernon might loose its 15.4% unemployment rate! Then who would cook our meth?

[steven lloyd]

Should the NDP and the Liberal Party merge?
11/06/2012 12:19:00 PM
by Sameer Vasta

In an effort to defeat the Conservatives, there's buzz about the Liberals and the NDP contemplating a merger. Should Canada be looking at lumping together all our parties on the left side of the political spectrum?

Is Canada ready for a two-party state?

There are rumblings of support for a merger between the New Democratic Party of Canada and the Liberal Party of Canada in an effort to unseat the current Conservative Party and the the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. The idea of a merger appeals to some because it would consolidate the center-left political spectrum of the country and mobilize enough support and votes to oust the current right-leaning government.

At its face, the merger has some merit: while there are fundamental differences between the two parties, they are still seen by many as residing on the same side of the political spectrum. Talk of "splitting the left vote" has been a recurring theme during most elections, and together, the parties do seem to have enough support and clout to wrestle power away from the Conservatives.

What is getting lost in this talk of the merger, however, is that the NDP and the Liberals are fundamentally different parties with different priorities and ideas about governance. It's not that both the parties represent "the left" and that it would be okay to mash them together; instead, each party has a unique view on what constitutes good government, and trying to reconcile those perspectives would be harder than most people think.

It's not fair to just lump the left together, face it off against the right, and assume that all will be well; the Republican-Democrat split down south of the border seems to have only led to a large impasse rather than any productive governing in the U.S. Instead of exploring mergers of parties along large ideological lines (left versus right can be arbitrary depending on your viewpoint or the issue), we should be looking at refining our electoral system to make sure that the opinions of the citizens are adequately represented and more collaboration and coordination between differing parties.

A two-party state may seem appealing to some NDPers and Liberals right now, but it's not going to solve their woes; ensuring that their political platforms are truly representative of their constituents and working to make sure our electoral system is reflective of those perspectives is a much smarter move.

http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-ta ... e/098a67c0