5 Canadian Election Issues Likely to Dominate
Because there isn’t a political party that seems to dominate the Canadian tundra, we decided to look at five likely issues that you will hear again and again and again and again. We’re going at this in a multi-part series with the Environment first up, cut by party accomplishments and strategies.Who will champion these issues and satisfy your voting appetite? Stay tuned undecided voters.
The Environment
Stephen Harper’s team will echo that they have done more for the environment in the last two years than the Liberals of the recent past with Dion at the helm of the Environment portfolio. Abandoning Kyoto and looking away from carbon taxes were two accomplishments made by the Conservatives lately – however they do have some brighter issues than they have taken the lead on such as setting hard deadlines for compliance with environmental standards for industry and taking a unnecessarily large amount of SUVs to the front door of Parliament. Way to go!
Dion has the green shift. What the hell is that? Sounds like the Kansas City Shuffle – at any rate a policy with the word ’shift’ in it doesn’t end well for taxpayers. Shift implies that the taxes will not be lessen to ease an increased burden of fuel costs on consumers, but rather moved around to avoid someone thinking that they aren’t giving back. Dion also brings to the table the fact that his dog is named ‘Kyoto’, bravo.
Layton has decided to paint his face and the faces of the other party MPs green for the entire time of the election campaign. His second part to that strategy is to respond to all questions in the environmental Hulk mode – “Layton Smash Carbon!”. That might work if his moustache goes angry.
Elizabeth May, what else is there to say? The greenest of the greens, the Kermit of the hill, her party is based on this one sole issue. The other issues may pose a larger problem when she is asked to expand on her solution to the Afghanistan war with the use of solar panels.
The communist party of Canada has stated that they would finally implement the technology that has been in development for years from underground research stations in Russia that allows the government and only the government to control the weather and impose greener conditions on the residents of land.
The marijuana party of Canada issued a short statement that comprised of only vowels and Led Zeppelin symbols. Further translation is required.
The next installment of the election issues to watch will be Leadership.