WHAA?????  You grew up where in Canada?  That's gotta be the silliest thing I've ever heard a Canadian say....

JustinUK: Compared to Bangkok, no, we're not full.

But if you come here, good luck finding a place to live. Plenty of jobs though. Also, for Montreal, you won't really need french, Montreal and Hull are the most anglicized cities in Quebec.

 If you've followed the recent elections, the NDP have gained a lot of seats, a few short of what they had at their peak.  Also, NDP are centre-left, not centre.  They're socialistic by nature and that's not a bad thing.  

Jack Layton is a remarkable leader.  Out of the leaders of the 3 main parties, I find him to be the most credible and trustworthy.  He's a very well spoken man, and I hardly find anything he pushes for funny.  Don't be surprised if NDP takes more seats in the Ontario election next month and when the next Federal election is called.

The US is by far the best country in the world and atleast they have a brain to elect Mr Bush twice, the greatest man ever.

Oh my god I will write this in a blog , THANKS!

How many people do their live in Canada?

Edit found it !! Around 33 million.  That is really not much for a big country (9 976 137 Square meters). (Crap 300 times so big than my country XD).

it's square KILOMETERS, not meters...

Thanks for your insight. The perspective from the ground is much more useful than what you get from typical newsmedia.

What's really interesting is that the greens are almost caught up to the NDP in national support. We definately need some kind of proportional representation in this country, and the sooner the better. Too bad the current system is what allows Conservatives and Liberals to achieve total control with ~35-40% of popular support. It would take a truly visionary and selfless Liberal or Conservative leader to actually get some kind of proportional representation instated. Nobody has the brass cahones. 

@DarkNight_DS, i live about 30mins east of Toronto.

 WAAH sorry.

Well, Ontario's holding a referendum on October 10th not only to elect our next provincial government but also to vote on changing our voting system from the current first past the post to a mixed member proportional representation system.  The FPP system, which is used mostly throughout the country, works this way.  You vote for a representative for your district, whoever has the most votes in that district represents in the government.  Regardless of the popular vote, whoever holds the most seats, leads the government.

Now, the MMP system works as such.  You vote for 2 things.  1 being the member you'd like to represent your district and a party.  Representation works the same as FPP, most votes wins, and gets a seat.  However, they then tally the votes for the parties, and as long as a party has 3% minimum of the votes they are elected as List Members.  List members are chosen from within the party itself and are SOLELY based on the popular vote.  In Ontario, we currently have 107 seats I believe.  The new system will drop that down to 90, and have 39 List members,  So roughly 70% are FPP and the other 30% are based on popular vote.  This then resolves the issue of popular vote not be properly represented in government.  

If Ontario passes this, hopefully other provinces do it as well, and perhaps even go nationwide.  I support this and will be voting for it coming October 10th.  The real problem is not many people actually READ what is going to be on the ballot or even care to.  It's why we've had to suffer the last years with unsatisfactory government representation. :( 

 Oh, I realize that we're not going to sweep the Province in an orange wave. But it really does look like this is a success the party can build upon. And it isn't entirely out of nowhere either.

In the 2000 election the NPD recieved a sad 60,000 votes in Quebec. In the 2004 election it was 150,000 and in the 2006 election it was 300,000 and managed a couple second places. Now those may not be huge numbers, but they aren't Japanese Xbox numbers either. And their Growth is almost Wii like. See, it all comes back to VGchartz.

But anyways, If you combine the increase in votes, the by election win (We've only once ever had a Quebec MP), and the changing political landscape in Quebec. I think there's a lot more room for growth. But either way, with the decrease in support for the liberals and bloc and a rising interest in the Conservatives and NDP, you've got to admit that it's an exciting time for Canadian politics.