For anyone who doesn’t know, that’s journalist Paul Wells in the middle, not the Leader of the Rhino party. 😉
All of us have reasons why we vote for the parties that we do – some people are “born wearing orange diapers” and will vote NDP as if the party were a family heirloom, passed down from generation to generation (and I’m sure many people have the same experience with red, blue or increasingly, green diapers – which would be cloth of course!)
Others will vote for some combination of the usual “big issues” in an election – the economy, the environment, foreign policy, etc.
Still others will vote for reasons that leave you shaking your head. (My most notorious example here is one woman who apparently said she was voting for Stephen Harper because “he likes cats”.)
There are all kinds of reasons people vote for the parties that they do. But if you want to check how your political beliefs might actually line up with party platforms, the CBC’s Canada Votes “Vote Compass” web site allows you to answer a series of questions then indicates which party you should vote for.
(The site isn’t perfect – I’ve taken the quiz three times and been given three different parties I should vote for in different percentages. I bet you can guess the only party I haven’t been told to vote for!)
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