About the Green Party...

[jay]

One thing to remember:  A vote for the NDP means that they might have
the strength to leverage a proportional representation bill through,
which has been their baby for years.

With proportional representation, a vote for the Greens would not be a
vote against the NDP. It would allow many small parties to have a
realistic chance of getting into parliament, and allow for many "fringe"
issues, such as FOSS/ open standards to be given the attention which I
believe they deserve.

-Jay.

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:00 -0400, Scott wrote:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > Why are you assuming you're going to get flamed? Seems like a weird
> > assumption to me....
> It would not be weird if you have been flamed many times already :).  I 
> have actually been flamed on the Kubuntu list for saying people should 
> not flame others.  I also been flamed twice for just saying I like KDE 4.
> 
> As I have already mentioned with someone off list.  My main concern with 
> the Green Party is not their platform, but the fact their platform is 
> very similar to that of the NDP.  They are essentially taking away votes 
> from the NDP and handing them to the two governments that are not very 
> open minded to Free and Open Source Software; Liberals and the 
> Conservatives.
> 
> It is much better for all of us to support our local NDP members, like I 
> do, and get as many of them into Parliament.  Then we can voice our 
> concerns though the NDP members who would be just as open to FOSS 
> software as the Green Party are, if not more.  Jack Laytons message is 
> not to be afraid of the big companies and he does want to stop companies 
> from gouging people.
> 
> -- 
> Your friend,
> Scott
> http://sgaming.org
> 
> Sent to you from a Linux computer using Kubuntu Version 8.04
>