If the party wanted to prove to Canadians that first past the post is a superior electoral system to proportional representation, they’ve succeeded.
I don’t know what the party would do otherwise but there are two things that I do know. Absolutely no delegated conventions and I want my vote (which is really the same thing).
But Hillary won the popular vote.
The best we can hope for is an anti-gun, pro-gay, pro-mass immigration Islamophile (like Harper was) who makes a few half-hearted noises about reducing corporate income tax. That’s what passes for “conservative” in Canada.
No way should there be a delegated convention.
Ranked ballots are fine. What needs to happen is a balancing of regional and membership strength (much as the ideal of a rep by pop house and a EEE senate). To get elected a leader should have to win a majority of both. And in this election it is likely that Bernier will in fact win both.
I mailed in my spoiled ballot. I could care less about any of the candidates I hate single transferable vote. Under the points system my vote counts for nothing anyways. The Conservative party opens a polling station in Edmonton but couldn’t be arsed to open a polling station in Calgary. I don’t want to mail in copies of ID with my ballot. I don’t even want to pretend to support this disaster of a leadership race.
So you are a liberal party supporter.
“So you are a liberal party supporter.”
look at it this way:
The conservatives bugger us with cucumbers.
The libtards bugger us with thorned branches.
While it preferable to be buggered by cucumbers than thorned branches, to declare that one loves to be buggered by cucumbers just because the alternative is even worse is insane, unless you’re into that sort of thing.
No Gord, he just doesn’t support the conservative train wreck as it is. I refused to even participate in this joke. Look at Newfberta’s last PC party, and OntarIowe’s current PC idiot. These fools should have even been considered for leadership, and yet………………….
Typical response from an oligarch run party who could be arsed to see members as anything other than walking wallets.
He is no different than the never-trumpers in the US. Opting out is a cop out and a surrender to our opponents.
“He is no different than the never-trumpers in the US. Opting out is a cop out and a surrender to our opponents.”
No, he is essentially the equivalent of a “no more Bushes” in the US.
Canada couldn’t field a man with the equivalent of one of Trump’s testicles if her life depended on it, as indeed it does.
Give me one member one vote, ditch the point system. Put polling stations in places where Conservatives live. Anything other than what the party is doing.
Oh and by the, by opting out I’m not diluting the vote for all the other sobs in my riding who actually believe in this arsed point system.
#RiggedSystem
As I stated above – a hybrid – one member one vote and one riding one vote is the way forward.
Bernier is very close and in some ways more conservative than ted Cruz. To say there is no conservation option in this field is ridiculous.
No it should be one member one f**cking vote no matter where you live. It’s a shame we can’t have a straight vote without hurting the feelings of other regions of this country.
You should really try being something other than a party yes man.
So was Harper. Look how that turned out.