Thursday, April 28, 2011

Canada, 35% turnout!

One stupid cliche has it that the Canadian policy is boring. On the contrary, the upcoming election push Ottawa to discover a very volatile electorate and taken to move voting en masse with no ideological problem. Although the elections will be held throughout the country on May 2, the system provides the usual three days of an election 22, 23 and 25 April and the attendance figures to what I would call an early vote early elections "marked Today a record +35% compared to the corresponding of the last elections.

The data, which translates to over 2 million Canadians who have already voted, has earned the opening of the Globe and Mail today and the indications are that the change in the Parliament in Ottawa will be "seismic" as he wrote the Toronto Star. The former head of the Central Election, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, today's activist group "Apathy Is Boring" (Apathy is boring), the main national newspaper said that this phenomenal growth recorded in early voting "will be confirmed by given and final scores that Canadians are beginning to understand that voting is very important.

" In the elections of 2008, as the attendance was 60%, with many political scientists were concerned to see participation fall under this psychological threshold. The largest increases have occurred in Newfoundland, Labrador and Nova Scotia, where it already has gone to vote at least 75% and 68% of those eligible.

In Ontario, 37% did vote. Without funny and all Canadian polling stations open here in unlikely places for us, such as the lobbies of buildings in Toronto. The country avoids having to use the schools, resulting in disruption of the working year for students and teachers. An idea that should be exported in Italy, together with that of the transparent plastic ballot boxes, as well as crystal clear (in all senses) of our heavy wood.

The latest poll, released today by the Toronto Star on a sample of 2,041 voters with a margin of error of 2.4%, NDP sees even the Social Democrats from 18% to 30%, a level never before seen by the main party of the trade union left, with the Conservatives still leading but declining, from 37.6% to 35%, the Liberals falling from 26 to 22%, the block that collapsed in Quebec house, from 10% to 7%, spurred Even by the Greens, now at 5%.

Similar data, but surveys of other homes, are also published today by the Globe and Mail and the Italian Corriere Canadian public than anything else highlights the magnitude of the maxi sample of 3000 voters was taken up in the Ekos poll, which basically is aligned with the Toronto Star.

The paradox is that while the Conservatives lost votes could well reach a majority in seats due to the collapse of the main opposition party, the Liberals. But what if the decline of the Conservatives does not however allow the achievement of 51% of the seats, it becomes very probable hypothesis of the first coalition government in Canadian history, but only between Neodemocratici and Liberals, so no lock Quebecers, and especially with the Social Democratic leader Jack Layton enthralling as Prime Minister.

Layton, according to a survey by the Toronto Star, has an approval rate of 49%, compared with 36% of the outgoing conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, leader of the Green 25% Elizabeth May, 21% Liberal leader Michael dell'algido Ignatieff and 13% of separatist leader Duceppe. But the election period also allows you to discover the existence of a plethora of small parties and political movements of the reasons Canadians unlikely that we will discuss tomorrow.

Pictured: Jack Layton (Lapresse)

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