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National Parties and Politics
So, there was an article in the Calgary Herald today about how the Bloc are willing to pull the plug on the Conservatives if they don’t do these certain things. This got me on to that think process of national politics, and the anger that I have for the Bloc. Oh, and just so you know I am a card-carrying member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta (it’s at the provincal level, so no, I’m not contradicting myself) and I’m planning on getting my Conservative Party of Canada membership too, so this may be biased, to an extent.
First off, for you non-Canadian readers or uninformed Canadians, the Bloc Quebecois is a national party that has one goal in mind, to use federal money to seperate Quebec from Canada. Nice national party huh? The Conservatives have a minority government right now, so they have to work with other parties to keep a float. It was less than a year ago that the Liberal minority government was brought down (thankfully). The Bloc only has people running for election in Quebec. That is where my problems begin.
I mean, how can you have a “national” party that only runs in one province? You can’t. It is so stupid, especially since they only care about Quebec. It just makes me so mad. I think that we need to change the election laws so that if a party wants to run in a national election, they have to have a representative in at least the majority, if not all, of ridings in Canada.
Well, when I thought about writing this earlier today, I was a lot madder about the whole situation, and had a lot more to say. Now that I am here writing it, I can’t think of all the things that I wanted to say, or how to put them down in writing. So, basically what I am saying is that there maybe a part two to this.
3 Responses to “National Parties and Politics”
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October 23rd, 2006 at 2:57 pm
I agree! How can you have a “national” party that is devoted to tearing the country apart? I hate the bloc!
October 24th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
My point exactly. Thank you.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:16 am
Kay, first of all, I agree that the Bloc Quebecois should run in all ridings, not just Quebec, but I disagree that they exist soley for the purpose of seperating from the country. In the last election, they actually didn’t even run on that platform because a lot of Quebecois are no longer interested in seperation. I actaully quite like Giles Duceppe - I think he is one of the more intelligent party leaders in power right now. The beauty of democracy is that any party can exist on any platform and they will be put in power based on the support of the people. There happens to be a lot of people in Quebec that feel that they need a unique voice - it also doesn’t help that the Liberals screwed up so badly that they really have no other option other than the Bloc. The Bloc is actually quite conservative - I would think you would like them. If Alberta wanted to have a party devoted to the interests of Alberta, there is nothing stopping them, except that it would never work because a) it would divide the right and then the Liberals would get into power again and 2) there aren’t enough people in Alberta to give a party like that any power. I also think that a minority government is the closest thing to democracy our country will ever get because the party in power is forced to listen to the other parties which have been elected by a certain percentage of the population to express their point of view. So a long story short - Vive le Bloc et Liberte!