Strategic voting?
Northumberland - Quinte West has been called a "hot riding" VoteforEnvironment.ca, a coalition of Canadians concerned about climate change. Hot as in a riding where vote-splitting could elect a Conservative. The web site offers what it refers to as "specific, transparent advise on how to vote strategically to ensure a pro-environment outcome."
If the straw poll on our web site is any indication, voters appear to be leaning towards a change of hats in Ottawa after Oct. 14. As of this afternoon, the former MP and Liberal candidate Paul Macklin is the choice of 64 per cent of the 135 poll participants, followed by the NDPs Russ Christianson at 19 per cent, with 10 per cent for Ralph Torrie of the Green Party. The Conservative incumbent Rick Norlock is pulling up the rear at seven per cent.
Could an upset be in the cards for Mr. Norlock?
We'll have to wail until the polling stations close Tuesday evening to find out.
What We Should Care About Most When Considering A Leader
Is it the economy, lack of jobs, oil, or war ?
What is the one single thing that should be the most important concern on all of our minds?
It is the very earth we live on.
We need a leader who make this his first priority, it’s a matter of our own existence.
We can no longer afford to be passive about this issue. We need to demand that definitive action be taken no matter who becomes Prime Minister.
As voters, we have the ability to research and look at the candidates agendas. Who will be the most responsible with our lives, our planet ?
We can no longer afford to stall cleaning up the mess and finding ways to reverse the damage.
There won’t be issues like oil or money to fight over if we can’t thrive.
I want a candidate who has a love of the land, not love taking what he can from it. I want a candidate who has concrete ideas how we can give back and replenish where we live so that as a race we can guarantee our continuance.
We need forward thinkers to carry out what we need to do to achieve harmony.
How many more new diseases link to our environment have to present themselves before we demand change? I myself have suffered eight years from an environmentally related disorder called morgellons. It's symptoms are insideous. Doctors here do not recognize as yet, but research at CDC in the Us will bear me out someday.
How many loved ones do we need to lose to heart disease, cancer or diabetes?
That’s what we have to take a hard look at.
All the other problems we have as humans can be held up, passed back, pollution is the one thing that has to be dealt with now.
Who do you feel will do the best job?
Ask the questions, read how the candidates plan to take action.
Inform yourself about who does not have our best interest.
It is not political as much as it is life or death.
The candidate that takes pollution seriously is the one that has my confidence. There are parties that have always been committed to the cause and then others who have only begun to say what we want to hear, I do not trust the latter.
I live in cottage country Ontario and wished I could enjoy the full benefits of being near the waterfront. I cannot eat the fish I catch because of toxins, the beach has been closed for more than half the summer, we have had a few boil water advisory since I moved here a year ago. Not quite the oasis I imagined it would be. It’s too bad because it is beautiful to look at, for now. What good is it to live where you can look but you do not dare touch. Not exactly the ideal living conditions for any of us.
What do we tell the future generations, how do we explain there used to be things that do not exist now because we made things too miserable?
It is all our problem. That’s why it’s important to really measure who will be our most thought filled keeper as well as our leader for the next couple years.
How compassionate are they about the planet or are they more interested in monetary gain?
My hope is that Canada becomes the model other countries look up to again.
We can take the lead and make inroads to ways we can do things differently and at a lot less expense to nature.
Please be careful about your decisions and that you weigh all the candidates solutions to this problem before you vote. We need to make the best choice we possibly can because we have to live with it.
Peace,
Freedom Crow
p.s. Young voters be sure and express your rights and vote for who will improve your world and your children’s it is so important!
Posted by: freedom crow | October 13, 2008 at 06:11 AM