I think it is just fantastic and a huge step for the ndp that they are using a preferential ballot process in choosing their candidate. This is how a democracy should work. If they get use to the idea maybe they can support this for general elections as well and may well find their chances of electing progressive candidates will increase substantially.

I would love to see exit polls done during the election with preferential ballots so we could see how it would have worked in the general election. Especially if the race is tight with no clear majority winner.

The stated policy of the NDP in this election is that they will implement a proportional representation system for federal elections. Hopefully they will be able to bring it about in time for the next election. I hope so.

Best of luck you people in the caribou Prince George riding. You have great leadership with Peter McMillan.
Cheers

I agree a better system is needed for Federal elections as well. Something to keep the left wing economic and job destroyers never on the ballot. Cheers to free enterprise.

NDP OWES TAXPAYERS $2.7 MILLION

Did you hear about the NDP wrongly spending $2.7 million taxpayer dollars to fund their own political activities?

The money was supposed to go towards Parliamentary business in Ottawa. Instead, the NDP funneled the money into hiring staff to run a campaign office in Montreal.

The NDP were eventually caught red-handed, but are refusing to pay back the $2.7 million they owe.

Thomas Mulcair and the NDP took your money – TELL THEM TO PAY IT BACK!

Be careful what you wish for. A lot of people wanted ‘fixed election dates’ ~ something that the USA has in their system ~ and now we’ve got them, both Provincially and Federally. But what goes with them is a longer election campaign period ~ though ours, mercifully, is still a lot shorter than the one in the States. Did we want that, too? Personally, I can’t see any advantage whatsoever to ‘proportional representation’, since there’s really no difference in ‘policy’ amongst the Parties, only a difference in ‘method’ by which it will be implemented. It’s like giving the condemned a choice of whether they’d rather be shot, hanged, gassed, or electrocuted ~ the end result is exactly the same, and hardly what was wanted by them in any case.

A closed-door committee found NDP members who broken rules around parliamentary resources! The mainstream media wants to ignore this, but here is a list of refunds the board is seeking from current and former NDP MPs:

Robert Aubin: $30,158
Paulina Ayalu: $29,280
Tyrone Benskin: $31,888
Denis Blanchette: $31,888
Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe: $29,842
Françoise Boivin: $24,498
Charmaine Borg: $22,807
Alexandre Boulerice: $122,122
Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet: $24,259
Tarik Brahmi: $22,953
Ruth Ellen Brosseau: $30,959
Guy Caron: $64,916
Andrew Cash: $1,288
Sylvain Chicoine: $31,069
François Choquette: $24,216
Former MP Olivia Chow: $1,288
Raymond Côté: $31,064
Anne-Marie Day: $35,430
Pierre Dionne Labelle: $26,812
Rosane Doré Lefebvre: $29,551
Matthew Dubé: $30,727
Pierre-Luc Dusseault: $26,805
Mylène Freeman: $30,301
Réjean Genest: $21,380
Jonathan Genest-Jourdain: $31,788
Alain Giguère: $28,794
Sadia Groguhé: $29,836
Dan Harris: $141,467
Now Independent MP Sana Hassainia: $26,754
Pierre Jacob: $31,051
Matthew Kellway: $1,288
François Lapointe: $30,364
Jean-François Larose: $15,299
Alexandrine Latendresse: $31,888
Hélène Laverdière: $24,216
Hélène LeBlanc: $27,866
Laurin Liu: $29,845
Hoang Mai: $30,739
Christine Moore: $31,793
Dany Morin: $28,152
Isabelle Morin: $169,117
arc-André Morin: $25,690
Marie-Claude Morin: $30,023
Thomas Mulcair: $7,440
Pierre Nantel: $14,911
Peggy Nash: $1,288
Jamie Nicholls: $30,740
José Nunez-Melo: $31,700
Annick Papillon: $29,266
Now Bloc Québécois MP Claude Patry: $14,081
Ève Péclet: $27,111
Now Independent MP Manon Perreault: $22,009
François Pilon: $31,874
Anne Minh-Thu Quach: $30,727
Francine Raynault: $27,952
Jean Rousseau: $142,548
Romeo Saganash: $35,600
Craig Scott: $1,288
Djaouida Sellah: $29,841
Rathika Sitsabaiesan: $1,288
Mike Sullivan: $1,288
Philip Toone: $31,069
Jonathan Tremblay: $30,739
Nycole Turmel: $15,161
NDP House Leader: $189,714 (Amount to be shared between Joe Comartin, Nathan Cullen and Peter Julian)
NDP Party Leader: $408,573 (Amount to be shared between Turmel and Mulcair)
NDP Whip: $35,633 (Amount to be shared between Chris Charlton and Turmel)

Total: $2,749,362.00

Thomas Mulcair and the NDP took your money – TELL THEM TO PAY IT BACK!

What is the NDP going to do to reduce the necessity for many Canadians to now have a ‘two-income’ household? We hear about them wanting to spend taxpayer’s money to have subsidised day-care, so both husband and wife can both be out in the workforce. But in country that obviously does not NEED to have 100% of its available workforce, both male and female, actually out working fulltime to provide 100% of all the goods and services we all need and desire, (and we would be a hopelessly inefficient country if we did!), why should we even want that? When I was growing up in the 1950’s and ’60’s, the one-income household was the norm. And we lived quite well on that. But now it takes two? And they still can’t afford to park the kids in daycare from what they’re making? At some point someone in the NDP should start to do the math. Universalising an insufficiency does not a sufficiency make, all it does is share the misery. That insufficiency is not necessarily money itself, but rather ‘purchasing power’. And robbing Peter to pay Paul was never a long term cure for that.