Personally, I would have liked to see the Conservatives take everything but the subsidy cut off the table. It would have made it a little harder for the opposition to obfuscate their motives that way.
Frankly, I'm for abolishing corporate donations as well as the subsidies, and putting a low cap on individual donations. Let the parties hold bake sales and rely on volunteer work. The health of democracy is not measured by the number of campaign placards per telephone pole.
I am basically fed up with the lot of them. There is not a single party that I could honestly bring myself to vote for in good conscience at the moment. This mess is a disgusting spectacle of arrogance on the part of the Conservatives, desperation on the part of the Liberals, rank ambition on the part of the NDP, and opportunism on the part of the Bloc. And none of the options (continued Conservative rule, coalition government, or another election) appeal to me one bit.
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Date: 2008-12-04 02:53 am (UTC)Frankly, I'm for abolishing corporate donations as well as the subsidies, and putting a low cap on individual donations. Let the parties hold bake sales and rely on volunteer work. The health of democracy is not measured by the number of campaign placards per telephone pole.
I am basically fed up with the lot of them. There is not a single party that I could honestly bring myself to vote for in good conscience at the moment. This mess is a disgusting spectacle of arrogance on the part of the Conservatives, desperation on the part of the Liberals, rank ambition on the part of the NDP, and opportunism on the part of the Bloc. And none of the options (continued Conservative rule, coalition government, or another election) appeal to me one bit.
Feh.