Are you asking me if I could choose which party wins, which would I choose based on platform and leader statements?
If it was based on platform alone, the PPC. They have the platform which most closely matches my views.
However when you add the leader into the mix, the PPC becomes out of the question. The PPC is led by a treacherous narcissist who will betray his friends/allies and sell out his entire country for an extra $100k a year (on top of his full MP pension). Of all the party leaders he has by far the weakest character.
He also has terrible judgement (he'd be CPC leader right now if he hadn't quit the party in a temper tantrum after losing the 2017 leadership election).
He doesn't know how to pick his battles (he lost the 2017 leadership election because he chose fucking dairy supply management as his hill to die on. An issue nobody in the world but Maxime Bernier cares about).
And he did that because he's an ideological zombie. He takes these hard-line positions on stupid issues because he thinks his ideology demands it.
"Hurr durr I'm a libertarian therefore I must take this position on that issue."
That's not a reasoned position. That's not thinking for yourself. You're just copy/pasting from someone else's philosophy and obeying it.
Narcissism, poor judgement, inability to pick battles, ideological zombieism - these all the ingredients you need for spectacularly terrible governance.
Then there's his party. These people are not capable of forming a government even if they were elected. Who the fuck is going to be minister of national defence, foreign affairs, fucking finance? Rocky Dong? Renata Ford? These people will have their hands full in the first four years just figuring out how to MP, let alone running ministries. It would be a fucking gong show.
Then of course there's the real reason I won't vote for them - I might as well flush my ballot down the toilet because there's 0.0% chance they'll ever win. Only fools piss their votes away when they can be better used to influence how we're governed.
Are you asking me if I could choose which party wins, which would I choose based on platform and leader statements?
If it was based on platform alone, the PPC. They have the platform which most closely matches my views.
However when you add the leader into the mix, the PPC becomes out of the question. The PPC is led by a treacherous narcissist who will betray his friends/allies and sell out his entire country for an extra $100k a year (on top of his full MP pension). Of all the party leaders he has by far the weakest character.
He also has terrible judgement (he'd be CPC leader right now if he hadn't quit the party in a temper tantrum after losing the 2017 leadership election).
He doesn't know how to pick his battles (he lost the 2017 leadership election because he chose fucking dairy supply management as his hill to die on. An issue nobody in the world but Maxime Bernier cares about).
And he did that because he's an ideological zombie. He takes these hard-line positions on issues because he thinks his ideology demands it.
"Hurr durr I'm a libertarian therefore I must take this position on that issue."
That's not a reasoned position. That's not thinking for yourself. You're just copy/pasting from someone else's philosophy and obeying it.
Narcissism, poor judgement, inability to pick battles, ideological zombieism - these all the ingredients you need for spectacularly terrible governance.
Then there's his party. These people are not capable of forming a government even if they were elected. Who the fuck is going to be minister of national defence, foreign affairs, fucking finance? Rocky Dong? Renata Ford? These people will have their hands full in the first four years just figuring out how to MP, let alone running ministries. It would be a fucking gong show.
Then of course there's the real reason I won't vote for them - I might as well flush my ballot down the toilet because there's 0.0% chance they'll ever win. Only fools piss their votes away when they can be better used to influence how we're governed.