Canadians Increasingly non-Partisan
| 1/28/2008 | Posted by Patti under Canadian Politics |
A recent Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates that Canadians are becoming increasingly non-partisan just as it seems that there is nothing in Ottawa that is not defined by partisan bickering. Maybe it is Canadians desire to see leadership shaped by what is good for the country more than the stroking of egos that comes with partisan politics.
Only a small number of those surveyed indicated a commitment to either the Liberals (13%) or the Conservatives (12%). Increasingly the two parties are seen as interchangeable. I suspect that view has a lot to do with overall behaviour than any particular stand on issues. While Dion stumbles around like the bumbling professor, Harper keeps a cone of silence firmly planted over him and his party, lashing out with vicious attacks on those he can’t control when they oppose him.
My thinking these days isn’t so much that the two main parties are interchangeable as much as dismay at the total lack of leadership qualities I’d want to see in either of their ‘leaders’. It isn’t so much that an election offers an opportunity to effect positive change as it presents the necessity of making the painful choice of which is the lessor of two evils that keeps me ambivalent about wanting to see an election in the near future.
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