Election results: Freedom of the Vote

Well the election is over and the Liberals are not in total control anymore. Thankfully we are able to vote. I was thinking and discussing with my family that the voting system in Canada is not as good as it could be. Here's why: each riding only gets one winner. Therefore, parties get more seats than what if represented by the populus.

Here are the results: Liberals=135, Cons.=97, BQ=54, NDP=21, Other=1; Lib=38%, Cons=29%, Green Party=5%. I can't remember the others but I think BQ was around 15%. Total=308 seats.

Going by these percentages, the Lib should've only gotten 117 seats, the Cons 89, the Green 15, and the BQ 46. If we were to get a new system where people vote for the party and all the results are tallied at the end, we would have a more representative gov't. But instead, we have the people voting for the party they want and since the votes in each riding were not powerful enough, the party or person didn't get in.

Say we want a certain person in Parliament. If his riding doesn't win, he doesn't go and the people are not represented the way they want. If we had the percentages voting, those 15 Green seats would be there to protect the interests of their voters. The Libs would be considerably less and their control would not be as strong.

Another thing with this voting: the Quebec people may have a hard time (as seen by last night) picking which party will best suit there interests. Both the BQ and the Lib are based in Quebec, in the same city. So what this means is, both parties are pro-Quebec and give money to it because that is their home province. Somebody should write to their MP and get these voting methods changed.

Freedom of Speech.

This post today focuses on 2 blogs of Note: Zaydoun in Kuwait and Iraq the Model. This concerns the fact that until April 9, 2003 in Iraq, the people there could not have their free say, in fact they could not have any say since going on the Internet could lead to death. I very much appreciate these guys because they give us an inside view of what it's like to live in their countries both before and after Saddam, and after contact with the outside world (somewhat akin to China and USSR).

We all take our freedoms for granted because we have not had them taken away nor have we lived in a country that doesn't have them. This is why it comes as such a surprise when we meet people from countries that don't have them. Before Saddam was ousted, I thought that all the people in the Mid East and Africa hated our guts. But to my surprise, with these new blogs, they didn't. Most of them loved us. And now I have made friends in the strangest of places thanks to the internet which guarantees a readership. Please read Iraq The Model's post for Fri., it is very enlightening.

Walid Shoebat, former terrorist, denied access to Canadian soil

Walid Shoebat

This atrocity is far beneath what Canada stands for, ... or is it?

We are home to terrorist organizations, Chretien was in cohoots with al-Qaida from.. will from long ago, racism abounds in the schools as detailed below. What's wrong with us? This is wrong and double wrong.

What with the islamic courts in Ontario, 1 and 2 and 3, and their supreme ability to not have a watchdog over them are extremely alarming for those of us who are not muslim, or are ex-muslim. We all know that the punishment for the crime of apostacy is death. Bugger the papers and the TV. Tell CNN, they might not listen.