printIt was swift and efficient. It took a day. There was little fuss. Campaigning did not begin three years earlier. Voters and election officials managed to cast and count the ballots. There are no reports of systemic voter fraud. Conservatives have returned to form a minority government. (As the American duopoly merges into undifferentiated socialism.)
The Wall Street Journal once called Canada “an honorary Third World country.” The tables are turned.
Update: (October 18) It’s important to make finer distinctions. Canada is more socialistic than the US; the US is more fascistic. Take the Drug War. Canada doesn’t have one nearly as destructive to lives and liberties as the US’s. Ditto an SEC. The US put Canadian newspaper mogul Conrad Black in jail; not the other way round. When last did you hear of an SEC witch hunt in Canada? Canada has tried to follow the US’s lead in these areas, but has not lived up to the latter’s brutality. Not by any measure.
I saw a piece of a “debate” with 5 parties (Con, Lib, NDB, Bloq-Q, Greens) which seemed far more relevant than the Duopolistic snorefests (so-called debates) that we have here. Of course, since Canada didn’t fight in Iraq and Vietnam, that means that they don’t “enjoy their freedoms” like we do here.
Our national election cycle is an abomination. I suspect the reason for it is the same as that which motivates so much of modern behavior – big, easy, fast, money. Election reform? Start with reducing this cycle down to five months. No contributions, advertising, or hat in the ring until the Tuesday after Memorial Day of the year of the election.
There seems to be no need for vote fraud in Canada because Canada is a relatively small country in population, and therefore relatively weak, and not much able to influence world events, and because the liberal establishment New World Order conspiracy is already in full control of Canada’s liberal suicidal policies of national surrender to the One World Government.
I grew up in Canada. Don’t get your hopes up.
Some people might forget that America is becoming like Canada, not the other way around.
The liberals have won Canada. They are facing some mild conservative arguments, but the Canadians are about as unbiased as, well, liberals.
They are a hopeless, apathetic bunch. They generally see things wrong with the liberal establishment, but become hysterical or angry when given capitalist solutions to their Statist problem.
What they don’t understand is economic theory, and simple ethics. Social justice as a body politic pervades there, and they dont see themselves as individuals, but rather, as a giant lump of mass.
Basically, the majority of them are sheep. Who cares if they vote more efficiently for the next troll in office?
Amen, Alex. If one realizes that most of the problems in the US are a means to bring in more socialism, much is explained. Those who seek heaven on earth at any cost will, of course, create hell.
The means are the end;
winners do not cheat;
cheaters cannot win.
A short term gain?
A pragmatic reason?
Sure, just as sure as sin
(has pleasure for a season.)
Off topic but it is revolting watching Jonah Goldberg sell his soul on the Glenn Beck show.
Surely,
“My people perish for lack of knowledge.”
[Jonah Goldberg has a soul?–IM]
I have to agree with the other poster who said there is no vote fraud in Canada because the entire place has been ceded to the liberals. I follow the national debate there more than most Americans, and there are not many voices demanding the power of the state be reigned in. The major players are all socialists, the choice is essentially between the 90% socialist and the 100% socialist. Of course the US is starting to rapidly resemble this.
Ironically, this will be a very bad thing for Canada. The U.S. has long been Canadas big government enabler. It provides a pressure relief valve in health care (which is the only thing keeping socialized medicine in the country moderately functional) because so many Canadians can come to the U.S for treatment. Safe and secure in the U.S.’s shadow, Canada has spent little to nothing on defense for decades, allowing ever more largesse. Canada’s best and brightest (be they actors, physicians, or businessmen) emigrate to the U.S. instead of staying at home. These industrious people are the type to demand new dialogue on the direction of the country. Instead of doing so they simply leave. What’s left behind is happy to suck at the nanny state teat. There will be much crying and knashing of teeth in the Great White North if they lose their sponsor.
Sorry for the long post.
Haha, Jonah Goldberg doesn’t have a soul. That is hilarious.
I think that a growing population of young people will need to hear the ideas of a Mises and Rothbard before their adult parents can decide for them what they should pay attention to. I know that this sounds disrespectful, but sometimes the youth has to ignore their elders.
I gained a healthy suspicion for the wisdom of the elderly while in Canada, something that seems reinforced in college today. Of course, we are told that the elderly know more, are wiser, and have more common sense.
What I found out (but couldn’t prove until I was old enough to read and understand books on political economy) was that old people really don’t know squat. Members of the AARP, they want increases in my taxes in order to pay for their lazy and inept ability to save money for retirement. They are often dogmatically liberal in regards to their precious benefits, and uninformed dolts. They also often make horrible customers, demanding special treatment and taking for granted a young man’s hospitality.
You could call Canada a nation of young people that acts and thinks like oldies – for all the wrong reasons.
Jamie, I don’t mean this to defend socialism but if some Canadian from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan winds up emigrating to some Palo Alto or whatever in the US – is that any different than someone in one of these “boondock” red states in the USA who wind up going to the “high tech” areas on the East and West coasts. Ironically, neoconservative op-ed writer David Brooks makes the point that the Republicans have been railing at “elitists” while simultaneously offering precious little to the “working class”. The so-called }high tech” belt is increasingly Obamified (Northern Virginia is a good example) – but then the election is a de facto choice between 2 statists anyway.