Category: 2017

BC NDP to form government with BC Green support

Very often during elections Canadians have been convinced not to vote Green or NDP because “they can’t win.”   

So instead of voting for (and maybe electing) who we want, we vote “strategically” for someone we don’t want because we’re afraid someone we hate will win.  Frankly, I think the phrase “strategic voting” is a misnomer, because it isn’t very strategic to vote against the one you want.  {Although it is very strategic for the one who gets your vote!)  I think the American term “Lesser Evilism” is far more apt.  

Thankfully we are waking up.  Since Elizabeth May’s election to the House of Commons, the New Brunswick and P.E.I.Greens are the 3rd parties in their respective provinces, and now the BC Greens are doing very well indeed.  And since the federal Liberals have dropped the ball, with both parties favouring Proportional Representation, it looks very much like BC will be the one to lead Canada into a real representative Representative Democracy.