Canadian Media Showing Unusual Interest In Election Of Fringe Party Leader....

Posted on Monday, August 28 at 16:43 by siamdave
The Canadian Action Party, CAP, which has been going for the last 3-4 elections at least, with candidates all across Canada as well, has also been frozen out of the media - CAP is adamant about proportional representation as well (and many other issues the MSM is not too hot on), so that Canadians at least get the people they vote for, or the parties they vote for, which is about the last thing we get from the current FPTP (first past the post) system - and CAP has gotten less press attention in the last 15 years than Elizabeth May has gotten in the last week. It's a media-democracy thing - the attention for May and the Greens is fine - but why them and not the rest of the people in Canada who are and have been trying to start parties because they believe in something? Why this sudden 'interest' in the Greens, while maintaining the freezeout of everyone else? Inquiring minds wonder about stuff like this, although those taking their ideas from the tv shows and the MSM might never think of such things.
More here: http://www.rudemacedon.ca/lgi/lgi-home.html

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  1. Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:09 am
    It may be a case opf nothing succeds like (a little bit) of success. The Greens are on the cusp of getting seats even under our present undemocratic system. CAP is far from that, so the media find it fine to ignore them.

  2. Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:27 am
    They'll first beef up CAP with some MSM attention, and when Canadian's start thinking - "Hey perhaps we should vote for these guys!" - they'll drop the bomb. <br><br> <a href="http://www.rense.com/general67/former.htm">Former Canadian Defense Minister Now UFO Activist</a> <br><br> No wonder the fringe parties never get any respect.

  3. by RPW
    Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:00 am
    I am tired of the "same old, same old"....think I'll vote Green this time around. At least green is a more tranquil colour than blue or red. And the Libs and Cons are both feeding from the same trough anyway. Perhaps they should combine and form the Periwinkle party.......<br />
    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periwinkle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periwinkle</a><p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
    - Justice Louis Brandeis

  4. by Innes
    Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:03 pm
    In my opinion Elizabeth May has already illustrated some poor political judgement in her decision to run in Cape Breton-Canso. This riding is not so much a Liberal riding as a Roger Cuznor riding. He is currently far more popular than his party. Third parties leaders have tended to defeat themselves by running against popular local candidates.

    As well, Ms May carries considerable negative local political baggage from her first environmental campaign there. She would be well advised to rethink her decision to run in that constituency.



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