   Politicians and their "shady trades" or... OMFG! CANADA SUCKS TOO!
  So many of you may have been following the recent scandal in Canadian politics, or not, because lets face it, nobody cares about Canadian politics outside of some Canadians. Anyways, it seems that   our current PM (who was NOT elected Fel, he's INTERIM). Anyways, it seems that a good assload of money in contracts were handed out to people favouring the liberals. Of course, this does not just end at our current PM, as Cretien was involved in some rather shady trades himself.Anyways, this is quickly shaping up to be one of the biggest scandals in Canadian history, and I'd like to know what everyone else thinks about this.   I Want My Island"Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island)[edited by - black_mage_s on February 12, 2004 1:11:13 PM]
  He was elected by a 92% vote of your Liberal party delegates, from what I understand, THEN he was appointed.-fel ;quote:Original post by felisandria  He was elected by a 92% vote of your Liberal party delegates, from what I understand, THEN he was appointed.-fel   The sucession of Canadian politics is a strange and mysterious thing. Instead of us actually voting who gets into office, the party in power does. But, since elections should be soon (please God, let them be soon) he''ll be gone. Martin is Canada''s Nixon pretty much.Anyways, delegates should not be in charge of who gets into office, the people should. Martin was not elected by the people, because, had we had real elections, he wouldn''t be in office.    I Want My Island"Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island) ;  Our Presedential elections work kind of the same way, only it''s on a per state basis.  We have the electoral college.  So, basically, we don''t directly elect our President either.-fel;;quote:Original post by felisandria  Our Presedential elections work kind of the same way, only it''s on a per state basis.  We have the electoral college.  So, basically, we don''t directly elect our President either. Well, eventually we do get to vote for the party we want and then it is put into power, and whoever is head of that party becomes our Prime Minister.From what I gather of the Electoral College, they can choose whether or not to vote along with what the states said? Not too sure because every time I try to look this stuff up I get bombarded with information about what a great democracy the US is.   Resist everyoneI am your only friend. Click here for more information. (MOVED);  There''s not an easy answer to that, because electoral college members are bound by state law, not federal law.Here''s a link to show you which ones can do whatever they darn well feel like (but they never do, to be honest) and which ones are bound by state law to vote a certain way.  What way they vote is also according to state law (or lack thereof)... some require them to give all the electoral votes to whoever gets the most votes, some give electoral votes based on the percentages the candidates got.state listYes, it is confusing.Sorry if I''m hijacking your thread too much black_mage_s.-fel ;quote:Original post by felisandria  Yes, it is confusing.Sorry if I''m hijacking your thread too much black_mage_s.-fel   So... your vote doesn''t always matter?   I Want My Island"Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island) ;quote:Original post by black_mage_s  So many of you may have been following the recent scandal in Canadian politics, or not, because lets face it, nobody cares about Canadian politics outside of some Canadians. Anyways, it seems that   our current PM (who was NOT elected Fel, he''s INTERIM). Anyways, it seems that a good assload of money in contracts were handed out to people favouring the liberals. Of course, this does not just end at our current PM, as Cretien was involved in some rather shady trades himself.Anyways, this is quickly shaping up to be one of the biggest scandals in Canadian history, and I''d like to know what everyone else thinks about this.   I Want My Island"Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island)[edited by - black_mage_s on February 12, 2004 1:11:13 PM] It''s not even close to the biggest scandal in Canadian history man.  Maybe you''re too young to realize but there has never been a time where one of these scandals didn''t exist.It is the exact same in every country too, that''s how the world works B-);quote:Original post by Imperil  It''s not even close to the biggest scandal in Canadian history man.  Maybe you''re too young to realize but there has never been a time where one of these scandals didn''t exist.It is the exact same in every country too, that''s how the world works B-) And maybe you aren''t Canadian enough to have actually read about most canadian scandals.   I Want My Island"Luck is for people without skill."- Robert (I Want My Island) 