If your goal is to elect someone you are wasting your time voting PPC the greens with 4 times the vote and decades of work didn't get anywhere near party status and are a waste of time so the PPC if a bigger waste of time.
If your goal is to make a statement against the CPC and try to push them towards the PPC platform I doubt your vote is doing much but making them bolder in their stance. Knowing it cost them 0 seats through vote splitting and had no impact on them if anything they can use the PPC to make them look better to the mainstream or to let ideas simmer before they release watered down versions of them effectively benefiting them.
The only reason to vote PPC is to keep them inspired to develop the party further. Ultimately due to poor accounting alone they were deregistered in almost 40 ridings which isn't a good sign of any level of governance.
The problem with the PPC is simple and the same as the Green Party. The candidates they attract wouldn't be able to govern even if they did win. The last time a green party candidate came to my home he was wearing shorts and sandals. I pointed out that campaigning is effectively a job interview and shorts and sandals isn't appropriate for the occasion if he can't dress properly he lacked ke decisional capabilities necessary for the job.
The PPC had laughable candidates at best and wing nuts at worst and they are going to have a very tough time being taken seriously if they don't up the ante significantly. Where the NDP has a solid base of students and trade unionists that have been ignored by the LPC and the CPC has a solid base with rural and the commercial middle class and the LPC has a solid base with the professional middle class the PPC lacks a significant base. The majority of people who were promoting them hard were internet nut jobs who sounded like conspiracy theorists.
The PPC does however provide a place for the CPC to banish people they deem to out there for the mainstream or to likely to say things downright stupid or offensive.
its isn't a 2% chance its a 0% chance at best you get what is effectively an independent representing you.
If your goal is to elect someone you are wasting your time voting PPC the greens with 4 times the vote and decades of work didn't get anywhere near party status and are a waste of time so the PPC if a bigger waste of time.
If your goal is to make a statement against the CPC and try to push them towards the PPC platform I doubt your vote is doing much but making them bolder in their stance. Knowing it cost them 0 seats through vote splitting and had no impact on them if anything they can use the PPC to make them look better to the mainstream or to let ideas simmer before they release watered down versions of them effectively benefiting them.
The only reason to vote PPC is to keep them inspired to develop the party further. Ultimately due to poor accounting alone they were deregistered in almost 40 ridings which isn't a good sign of any level of governance.
The problem with the PPC is simple and the same as the Green Party. The candidates they attract wouldn't be able to govern even if they did win. The last time a green party candidate came to my home he was wearing shorts and sandals. I pointed out that campaigning is effectively a job interview and shorts and sandals isn't appropriate for the occasion if he can't dress properly he lacked ke decisional capabilities necessary for the job.
The PPC had laughable candidates at best and wing nuts at worst and they are going to have a very tough time being taken seriously if they don't up the ante significantly. Where the NDP has a solid base of students and trade unionists that have been ignored by the LPC and the CPC has a solid base with rural and the commercial middle class and the LPC has a solid base with the professional middle class the PPC lacks a significant base. The majority of people who were promoting them hard were internet nut jobs who sounded like conspiracy theorists.
The PPC does however provide a place for the CPC to banish people they deem to out there for the mainstream or to likely to say things downright stupid or offensive.
its isn't a 2% chance its a 0% chance at best you get what is effectively an independent representing you.