Canadian form of protest (electoral reforms needed here as well)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/longest-ballot-protest-candidates-carleton-riding-poilievre-1.7503993
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be facing more opponents than ever in his eighth federal campaign, thanks to dozens of protest candidates running in his riding. Nearly 80 candidates registered to run in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, where Poilievre has been the MP since 2004.
Most of those candidates are linked to an electoral reform advocacy group called the Longest Ballot Committee. The group wants to put a citizens' assembly in charge of electoral reform and says political parties are too reluctant to make government more representative of the electorate.
Still far less options than a Dutch voting ballot!
You vote for the candidate you want to see in parliament, no riding bullshit.
First past the post, winner takes all system sucks. We can't vote for Carney here, not even Bonnie Crombie (Ontario leader of Liberal party) have to vote for Chuck Phillips instead. And we've been pushed into a new riding, so no idea who is 'ahead' or whether it's close in the riding we're voting in now.
https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-news/some-brant-county-residents-will-head-to-the-federal-polls-as-part-of-a-new-riding
I guess we're 'lucky' we haven't yet entirely been locked into a two party system like the USA, but it's basically Liberal vs Conservatives every time with the NDP and Block Quebeqois to align with if neither gets the majority.
It looks like Liberal+NDP again for next term with the latest poll results. So I'm guessing the safest bet is to vote for Liberal in this new riding unless NDP is ahead here and a Liberal vote would hurt the NDP vs Conservative voters.
There's a good chance it won't matter anyway as the Progressive Conservative Party is massive in Ontario. (PCP 80 NDP 27 Lib 14 seats) While not the same as the (federal) conservative party: The CPC (conservative party of Canada) is a centre-right political party that runs candidates in Federal Elections in Canada. The PC (progressive conservatives) refers to various centre-right political parties that run in provincial Elections but do not run candidates in Federal Elections. (Note however that there is significant overlap in the demographics of their voter bases and significant interaction between the federal CPC and provincial PC parties.
NDP is second, Liberal last. So maybe better to vote NDP to give them a chance to win my riding instead of the conservatives, and thus give Carney a better chance. Fucking twisted.
I know who I want to vote for but I don't know who to vote for.
Voting in a different riding now as for the provincial elections a month ago. I don't even know the NDP candidate in this new riding, Peter Werhun apparently. Can't (pointless) vote for the Green party at all: The Green Party candidate not based in the local riding, and is not actively campaigning. She advised FlamboroughToday by email that she agreed to have her name included on the FGNB ballot as a “paper candidate” to help the party achieve the 90 per cent benchmark needed for the leader to participate in national debates, and to give Green party supporters the chance to “vote with their heart” in this election.
Looking at the Provincial election results in my provincial riding
| PC Will Bouma* | 24,169 | 47.3% | |
| NDP | Harvey Bischof | 12,002 | 23.5% |
| LIB | Ron Fox | 10,364 | 20.3% |
Yet now we're mixed in with this riding while cutting out Brantford cit
| PC Donna Skelly* | 23,790 | 49.4% | |
| LIB | Joshua Bell | 15,135 | 31.4% |
| NDP | Lilly Noble | 6,095 | 12.7% |
So yeah, the conservatives are likely gonna take my riding, while leaving me guessing whether to go for Libs or NDP.
I'm thinking Lib would be better against conservatives in the new riding.
Election reforms needed! I would like my vote to count, not to get discarded in a first past the post system.
