Thanks USA. Our politics now has a fixed election

[applegrove]

date and campaign advertisement 5 months ahead of the vote. It used to be our elections were only less than two months long. This new fixed date will benefit the party with the most money, the Conservatives. Of course they are the ones who implemented this. We are lucky to be culturally pretty close to the USA. But not in this case.

[haikugal]

1. I'm sorry to hear this, you have my condolences. :-(

[applegrove]

3. At least there is a chance the Conservatives may not win. The Liberals

and the New Democratic Party can fight it out to see who gets the progressive vote. It will be a fractal like a flock of birds changing direction when progressives break for one or the other in October. I'd be happy with either.

[shockedcanadian]

6. The Liberals "progressive"?

How so?

[alcina]

2. This is all Harper and his delusions of neocon grandeur

I wish he would just move to the US and be done with it, instead of trying to turn Canada into a US territory.

"The prime minister is the champ and his people are setting the rules. I think every Canadian should be concerned about that," Jean-Pierre Kingsley, former head of Elections Canada, told host Evan Solomon in an interview on CBC Radio's The House.

Good article, if you haven't already seen it. There are also links to Evan Solomon's interview on the same page.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fixed-election-date-eroding-campaign-rules-ex-elections-chief-says-1.3084146

[riverbendviewgal]

4. We better get our Canada back in October

Harper is destroying our wonderful country. I was just saying today how the political commercials are starting . Ugly

[Saviolo]

7. That stupid one on the radio...

where they take that little out-of-context clip of Justin Trudeau saying "...and the budget will balance itself..." makes me grit my teeth so hard, I'm afraid I'm going to injure my jaw.

It sounds like a bad parody or a political radio ad from a show like West Wing, but no, the Harpercons actually put that ad out, probably paid for by our tax dollars, and before the election cycle even started. There are so many things wrong with the commercial and the situation surrounding it that it makes me feel furious.

I may break my long-standing tradition of voting NDP provincially and Liberal federally due to Trudeau's support of C51, and mark my X next to NDP on the federal stage. Don't know how much of a difference it will make in my riding. I suspect Adam Vaughan might be a lock.

[riverbendviewgal]

8. let's vote ABC strategically

But it would be awesome to make Canada orange this time around like in Alberta

[Saviolo]

9. I'd love it

I think that would be a really good movement for the country right now.

Amazing how the cycle goes, eh? Conservatives crash the economy into a tree, and the populace votes in a Liberal gov't to fix it, then when everyone's flush and happy, they vote Conservatives in to cut taxes and tank us again.

If only we'd learn!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. Don't 'thank' USA,

thank Harper for wanting to turn Canada into Texas-north any and every which way possible. Not that conservative and neo-liberal USA objects, but I doubt they had anything to do with it.