Canadian Election results

[Baalzamon]

By "stealing" I mean taking 54 seats that could have gone to a real party instead. If an actual National party was the alternative to the liberals in quebec, we would probably see a majority of said party right now.

if the viable and accepted alternative in quebec had been the conservatives or NDP for example, and the bloc didnt exist, things would be much different now.

And yes Duceppe is a very smart man and a good politician. That doesnt change the fact that his party is separatist and regional.

So long as the bloc fucks up quebec all the time and the conservatives refuse to move their policies beyond rural Alberta, our country will not be able to have a stable 2 or 3 party system. Absent of strange happenings, a party needs quebec seats to win government. Only the liberals can do that right now.

Giving up 75 seats every election just isnt good politics no matter how you look at it.

All these regional parties do is leave the liberals free to take it all, because they are the only party with broad appeal, other than the NDP, which, though it has broad appeal, doesnt have enough appeal to form government.

The conservatives unfortunately are the only party that has a chance in hell of pulling this off, and would have long ago if they hadnt spent the better part of the last 10 years squabbling with each other.

Only by reverting to what the PC's where policy wise can the conservatives win government, and the alberta centred reform element of the party wont let that happen without a fight.

Face it, if reform had never happened we probably would have switched back to PC in the late 90's, and back to liberals by now.

Instead preston manning has fucked our system for years to come.