Canada Votes

So this is kinda cool. It's a quiz developed by poli sci students to find out where you fit compared to the major Canadian Political Parties:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/votecompass/

I was on the left/liberal side of the Liberal party according to the graph. I'm not particularly surprised by this. Especially because my response to questions I want to ask clarifications about is to click on the "somewhat agree/disagree" rather than "strongly". Also you know you've been in higher education for too long when your response to half the questions is "How are you defining *blank*?" - "culture" in Quebec? Really? Could be any more vague?

Also, since I really only care about politics when elections come around, I don't actually know much about many of the issues they mentioned. So yeah, I think that wealthy people should pay more taxes than poor people - but I'm not sure what the tax distribution is right now, so I can't say whether it's good enough (I suspect not). I just generally don't feel comfortable making "strongly agree/disagree" statements when I don't know a whole lot about the issue. - and even then, I'm more of a "see both sides" for most things.

Also questions like "How competent a Prime Minister would these candidates be?" is very misleading. Harper is very competent - he's just very competently doing things I don't like.

I'm going to be in Cuba on May 2nd - so things I need to do before that:
- find out what my riding is
- find out who's running here and who's good
- figure out how to do an advanced ballot

But in the meantime - presentation number 1 is today and all ready.
Presentation number 2 is on Friday and not ready. :(
I am sick and filled with snot. :(

Wish me luck!