Canadian Federal Election 2015 - Next Debate: September 17, 2015

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For those new to Canadian politics allow me to backtrack a little bit. So basically british and French settlements were started in the eastern part of Canada. Over the coarse of time people started to migrate further and further west. By the powers that be at the time this very quickly came about harvesting the precious minerals, lumber, and later on oil of the west in order to line the pockets of easterners. After a while this kind of went away until Pierre Elliot Trudeau came into power. He focused heavily on centralized power and having the wealthy provinces share money with the not so wealthy provinces. He demanded that provinces like BC and Alberta share the wealth. BC and Alberta didn't have very many seats in the house of commons and had no electoral power to prevent this from happening.

For years the west took orders from Eastern politicians until Stephen Harper the current Prime Minister took over. He's been in power for a while and people are starting to get bored of him and want change. So in any event it looks like the NDP will win even though they've never been in power before. The LIberals who are usually in power are now led by Pierre Trudeau's son Justin. So the Liberals will not do well in the west as they view his centralized carbon tax policy as ore western alienation and haven't forgot what his father did to them.

The NDP are at alltime high's in terms of support and this is mostly due to Quebec. Quebec for many years supported a separatist party but have recently realised that a Quebec only party doesn't actually give them any power and have given the NDP a shot since they have trust issues with the PC's and the Liberal party.

What we are probably going to be looking at is a minority government. Unlike Americans who can vote for their local reps and also the president Canadian can only vote for their local party. The leader of the party with the most representatives in the house of commons becomes the Prime Minister. The system is the shits but at least it keeps Donald Trump type guys from having a chance to win.