Niagara Falls—Niagara-on-the-Lake is another close LPC-CPC race that could use any help from non-LPC voters. It used to be a CPC seat.
This page shows a nice visualization of the closest races.
Every time I see one of these, I get a bit more depressed. It’s just incredible how people can vote for a party that openly declared to make depriving Canadians of some of their fundamental rights as part of their platform. How if you take even ten seconds to think about their policies, they’re basically to purely empower the rich and powerful, while screwing over 98% of Canadians.
They basically stand on the same platforms as the Nazi party did almost a hundred years ago, and it’s not like they’re the only right-wing party. Just the most extreme right-wing one that has more than 1% of the expected votes.
It’s my first time voting in Canada, and the liberal candidate has a 99% chance of winning in my riding. My vote feels pretty useless.
In a riding where the other candidates don’t stand a chance, I vote for the candidate who doesn’t stand a chance but whose party’s values I like best. Like the NDP or the greens.
Doesn’t do much, but in a way, it’s freeing and I can pretend I’m free to vote for anyone.
If someone has a chance to beat the worst candidate, though, I’ll vote for the most likely one. And that’s the most depressing situation of all.
I really hate this voting system. But it’d take a miracle for it to change.
Yes, that’s what I’m leaning towards. I was trying to figure out if the parties get anything from my (losing) vote, and from what I understand they do get some funding from votes (?).
Parties used to get a bit of funding for every vote. Conservatives didn’t like that and they repealed it under Harper.
Now all they get is, I guess, pride?
Thanks, this is the first real answer I got for this!
The Conservative candidate has a 99% chance of winning in my riding. Thankfully voting only took 10 minutes out of my day so, while it feels useless, at least it’s quick and painless!
Yeah about the same. I still feel like we should be voting regardless.
I always had an opinion of, if I don’t vote (as a bare minimum) I can’t complain about the outcome. I am considering maybe being more politically active or involved lately though.
Welcome to … everyone’s world who’s bothered to learn how the system works. Many don’t get this far. It’s a bit hard to accept at first but it’s what we have to work with. That’s why it’s important to understand all the different opportunities to affect change. For example keeping track of different parties’ leadership elections and voting in those. Or pestering your MP for what you want to see happen, like some folks here pester them for electoral reform. The same goes with provincial parties and elections. And municipal elections. And getting involved in any of those campaigns. And so on.
So Jagmeet could Stein this vote.
