Normally Canadian elections are pretty tame by American standards, in the interal politics of the poltical parties even more so...
Except in the case of the by-election for London, Ontario.... see the federal party dropped in a hand-picked candidate despite the protests of the local party members; and what a candidate! Lets see what Haskett has got going for her shall we?
a) A staunch Conservative who, instead of running in the last couple years instead worked for the Republicans in Washington since 2000... but after Nov.7th she found she had more free time.
b) Has been fined for violating the rights and freedoms of Homosexuals while mayor of London back in the 90s.
c) Staunchly pro-Christian (please note this doesn't include Catholics... who aren't Christian according to her) and even got in trouble for anti-Islamic comments... oh and that pray-in thing where she prayed Canada would be protected from Islam (this is back in the mid-90s).
http://rickmercer.blogspot.com/
The political comedian Rick Mercer does a good send-up of the whole mess... but I should point out that while he has been accused of being too nice to the Conservatives lately, his personal bias against the anti-homosexual crowd trumps that... and he usually takes a rather creative comedic approach when expressing his 'disaproval'.
- like the time he purchased the URL rights to the name a Conservative candidate who called homosexuals "a genetic abomonation in the eyes of God"... he had the URL redirect all hits to either gay-rights site or gay-porn sites.
- and of course the counter referendum to Stockwell Day's famous attempt to change the requirements for provinicial or federal amendments (essentially he want a change that would allow modifications or amendments to pass if more than 5% of the population was in favour)... Mercer led a refurendum on CBC and online to force Stockwell to change his name to Doris (and he more than got the numbers under Stockwell's proposition, something like 23% of the Canadian population).
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