Subj : any dibs on % voting?
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Feb 27 2025 09:54:00

> Definitely know the feeling, although they tend to give us more political
> parties in Canada to choose from, sometimes 5 or 6 but only the top 3
> usually have much chance of gaining enough power to do anything, and
> really, it's more just the top 2. Our Liberals and Conservatives who are
> like your Democrats and Republicans.

We usually do have at least a third choice.  For President this year, I
think there were at least 3 other choices in KY.  The problem is that the
top two parties control who can get on the ballot in each state.  In many
states, the rules are set up so it is darn near impossible for a 3rd+
choice to get on the ballot, so those 3 additional choices on my ballot were
not on the ballot in every state.

Ironically, while my state makes it difficult to get on the ballot, it also
makes it difficult to be removed.  One of the "extra" choices dropped out
right after they got on the ballot, but they were still there on election
day.

> All the talking we are doing about Trump doesn't mean we were all that
> happy with Trudeau. He seems a nice guy but tends to cave in to every
> minority group that wants something, and that something is almost
> always expressed in dollars.

Yeah, I have noticed that.  I have also seen footage where he also acts
quite erratically... didn't he slap some lady in Parliment once?

> His other cave in was to increased immigration which caused a housing
> shortage and was a big part of the rising cost of housing in Canada.

The increase got covered here pretty well, but the rise in cost of housing
was not covered so well.  That does make unfortunate sense.

> He was likely elected because his father Pierre Elliot Trudeau was
> Prime Minister here for over 15 years from 1968 to 1984.
> As I recall it, his father was a tougher politician than he is..

That is what we always hear down here... his father was tougher and better.

> Speaking of immigration.. I hear Trump is offering to move people
> to the front of the waiting line to get into the USA if they pay
> $5 Million to get there..

Yeah, supposedly that is a program that already exists but I had never
heard of it before.  There is some part of it that Trump has added, but
there supposedly was already a program where someone with lots of money,
who wants to move their money here, could pay to be moved ahead.

I was surprised to hear that it supposedly exists already. <shrugs>


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