Trinity Spadina

[bcholmes]

I went to the Conservatives' web site today. Unclean! Unclean!

(This is how I felt when I visited my grandmother shortly after my grandfather passed away, and I found my grandfather's stash of Conservative Party literature. It's like, you know your grandparents had to have had politics, you just never want to visualize it).

Candidates in my riding:

• Olivia Chow (NDP)
• Christine Innes (Liberal)
• Chris McGirr (Conservative)
• Stephen LaFrenie (Green)

Last election, we also had a Progressive Canadian candidate, a Canada Action Party candidate and a Marxist-Leninist candidate. (I almost spelled, "Lennonist"). None of those parties have candidate information on their sites, yet.

I'm torn about my vote this year. I've voted NDP pretty much my entire adult life (please don't ask about the sins of my youth), but I know the Green candidate and his work in Haiti is stellar. The Greens, unlike the NDP, actually seem to have a stance on Haiti.

I also didn't notice until yesterday that we closed parliament with a Green member.

Comments

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I vote Greens locally, and sometimes it makes a difference.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I remain envious of your multiple party options.

re: your grandfather
This sort of thing takes me right back to early puberty. For example, I know that my brother wears underwearm but I don't even want to know if it's boxers or briefs. (Fortunately, his voting tendencies are not the opposite of mine.)