NDP ad stoops to Conservative lows.

[taxslave]

Indeed, disappointing. At least they havent used ISIS footage - yet.



Who often times seem to make up the majority. Hopefully just because they are the loudest.



There are different levels of government for that. Federal is about as far away from local as you can get.

Not really. Decisions made by eastern city dwellers can and often do have a huge negative impact on large chunks of the country because we lack equal representation. A more fair method would be to have a weighted vote based on Sq. Mi. of riding.

 

[MellencampFan]

This is factual and not personal, I see no "low" here.

 

[WLDB]

Not really. Decisions made by eastern city dwellers can and often do have a huge negative impact on large chunks of the country because we lack equal representation. A more fair method would be to have a weighted vote based on Sq. Mi. of riding.

True now that I think of it. Should have been obvious. I grew up in Northern Ontario and it was annoying having Toronto make all the decisions. The north by and large was totally ignored. Guess Ive been away a long time.

 

[damngrumpy]

It is politics not a campfire sing a long yes negative ads work or they
would not run them. The only problem I have is sometimes they are
not factual. Negative and true fine negative and not true different story

 

[Machjo]

True now that I think of it. Should have been obvious. I grew up in Northern Ontario and it was annoying having Toronto make all the decisions. The north by and large was totally ignored. Guess Ive been away a long time.

I'm a city dweller myself, but I do think that electoral districts based on geographical size rather than population does make sense. For example, would one MP not benough for the City of Ottawa? One problem I see with that is the MP's workload whereby a rural dweller could more easily get the attention of his MP than a city dweller does.
Another possibility would be to still have representation by population but make it such that come voting time, the vote of a rural MP would be worth two votes, whereas that of an urban MP one vote, or something else of the sort.

The other idea (though this wunderkind require Constitutional change and radical decentralization with most political power at the city level) would be pyramidal demoray whereby we vote for our city councils and our city councils vote for the Federal government. This would make representation by geography rather than population (one city, town, etc., one vote) and make it much more grassroots with MP's trying as best they can to cooperate with city governments to win their votes.

 

[tay]

The anti-Harper ad CBC refuses to air




Free the CBC from Harper's Interference. Please watch the video and sign the petition. #FreeTheCBC #cdnpoli










www.youtube.com/watch?v=w28NGOm7hyQ

 

[mentalfloss]

Unfortunately with PR you also have no one representing your area. In cities this probably doesn't much matter but it does with rural areas as we have different wants and needs than city folk.

That's not true at all.

You still have the same reps they just fill in the extra seats.

 

[damngrumpy]

First of all I am not against attack ads as long as they are on a policy issue
Attack ads for the sake of attack ads don't do anything for voters in the long run.
Policy ads alone no matter who's they are are boring.
I think stay away from just attacking without alternatives it does nothing for your cause.
Though I will be supporting Mulcair it looks like I am not in favor of proportional
Representation I am for first past the post.
Look how dysfunctional most of Europe is

 

[taxslave]

That's not true at all.

You still have the same reps they just fill in the extra seats.

Depends on just which type of proportional representation you choose. The one that faild to pass in BC would not have done so.
If you are going to give out seats based on percent of popular vote who in those parties will get the seats?And what riding will they represent?

 

[eh1eh]

I think the OP is trying to say all politicians are self interested hypocrites.

Or something like that. Or it was about one political stripe but really applies to all.

So much time spent here comparing scum bags. "My scum bag is less scum baggy then your scum bag, na na na."