Election babble
Nov. 29th, 2005 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo apparently the government has fallen and I'm voting again - the Canadian government, that is :-) My voting kit will probably arrive around Christmas time and then I have the agony of making a choice. And, unlike my constituency in good old Blighty, this vote will actually count for something.
Terrifying.
Over here, it doesn't matter what I vote - my constituency always returns a Tory candidate. I'm voting for a swing seat over in Canada and it shifted from NDP to Liberal in the last election. I much prefer the NDP policies, but I'm worried that a Conservative government will undo the good things that the Liberals have done, particularly the gay marriage thing that isn't quite finished in Parliament yet (to my knowledge). There are enough couples who have married since the court order, but Steven Harper has stated that he'll work to overturn that. I'll be moving to Canada in 2008 (I hope) so there are good odds that whoever is voted in now will still be in power when I emigrate.
Other the other hand, I don't like the idea of voting to keep a party that I don't like out. It seems like a negative way to choose my vote.
It's weird, scary and disturbing to actually be casting a vote that will count for something. I've never had to do it before.
If I were actually there on the 23rd, I could joining the family Election Night party. Darn my wrong-side-of-the-Atlanticness.
Terrifying.
Over here, it doesn't matter what I vote - my constituency always returns a Tory candidate. I'm voting for a swing seat over in Canada and it shifted from NDP to Liberal in the last election. I much prefer the NDP policies, but I'm worried that a Conservative government will undo the good things that the Liberals have done, particularly the gay marriage thing that isn't quite finished in Parliament yet (to my knowledge). There are enough couples who have married since the court order, but Steven Harper has stated that he'll work to overturn that. I'll be moving to Canada in 2008 (I hope) so there are good odds that whoever is voted in now will still be in power when I emigrate.
Other the other hand, I don't like the idea of voting to keep a party that I don't like out. It seems like a negative way to choose my vote.
It's weird, scary and disturbing to actually be casting a vote that will count for something. I've never had to do it before.
If I were actually there on the 23rd, I could joining the family Election Night party. Darn my wrong-side-of-the-Atlanticness.
