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This commentary leaves no doubts about its Liberal bias, but heck who's not a little biased anyway?
It's quite true that seats won are what counts rather than how individuals vote. Yes people do live in rural areas and have had different voting patterns in the past, but everyone generally feels emotions similarly regardless of where they live. The emotion that I feel is outrage. That outrage is because my tax money has been squandered and devided up between Liberal hacks and politicians as though it's there right to do so. To allow this to go unpunished is just telling them to keep it up, because we don't care. Corruption breeds more more corruption and when it gets too far embedded you can't get rid of it.
The polls do go very wrong sometimes, and it clever to point that out when they are not in your favor, but I believe that they indicate a trend, and Canadians generally feel as I do.
Wonderful to see the statesmanship of Harper. I will be very proud o have him as Prime Minister. Tell me ....who is "we" in the editorial part of this Langley Free Press? You just cannot think of any other party governing can you!!!! Only in Canada
Pity!!
We, is in this specific case me, the masked chief editor of Langley Free Press. There are at least 3 types of voters out there. Those that are party/philosophy driven and generally vote their allegiance right or wrong no matter what befalls their party(basically political fascists but all parties have them). This voter generally comprises the core or rather hard core of any and all political parties. Can you relate? There is the blink voter who basically votes when a certain whim or light comes on in what they see or hear and just instinctively and suddenly vote and they can and do swing a lot. A third is the process voter who takes a long and some times a lengthy and careful look at Party, leader, candidate, policies, promises, track record, etc. and comes to a final stand based on all the facts and strategic reasons for the vote that is ultimately made. Because the process is involved they generally lean one way but are torn in other directions and often find their final decision very diffilcult. I am a process voter. Also see this cartoon to describe me best; http://thetyee.ca/electioncentra...tist-concludes/
For another insight read a previous editorial where I ask where are the leaders now a days.
Where are the leaders homepage? I think the answer to that is that they are doing something else as a preference. I don't think I'm totally qualified to describe the distinctively different inner drive of people who enter politice, but a desire for power and prestige of some kind is a certainly. Unfortunately most seem lack the broad specttum of ablities that a leader requires. If wealth is the driving force we all know that there's better ways to get rich. Honestly that is.
I think Canada's best leadership candidates take a pass when offered a political opportunity. I don't blame them one bit, because it's much more comfortable staying in private life
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