Canadian federal election, 2009 - official thread

[minionofmidas]

What are the NDP's prospects looking like right now?

[minionofmidas]

Canada has one of the most fascinating party systems in the world, and I'm very excited about reading about this election.

Yeah. It's a large part of why I keep watching that ongoing fptp trainwreck.

[minionofmidas]

And cp, please don't abuse Iggy's



good name to refer to a mediocre novelist. Thanks in advance.

[minionofmidas]

Sorry, what? I don't understand the reference.

Ah. You're not reading the entire forum then.

Afleitch has been posting pictures of that toy bear called Igg or Iggy for a while now. Iggy is an independent candidate for parliament from Bearsden (which is a real town but not a real constituency).

[minionofmidas]

It's never a good idea to prop up a Canadian government too long - doing so deprives me of election night suspense.

[minionofmidas]

It's never a good idea to prop up a Canadian government too long - doing so deprives me of election night suspense.

Canada should just give it up and have elections every month to keep us entertained.

I support this.

Could do it on a sort of by-election level to cut costs - stop holding general elections, but hold by-elections for, say, six or seven seats every month, and set it as a roster so that every seat gets an election once every four years (neither more nor less frequently)...

No. Please. The average life of a Canadian Parliament in recent years has been two years. Can't allow to let term length grow any longer than that.