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Here in Canada, my position on cyber liberties and intellectual property is very radical, much like the Green and the Bloc Quebecois position, but I'm active in the NDP, which is quite tepid about this issue and far too supportive of WIPO and willing to compromise with Big Entertainment.
Why?
Green Party: I don't support an eco-capitalist approach to dealing with the environment and I don't support a party led by an ex-Tory who refers to himself as a Green Conservative. Only the NDP and (to a somewhat lesser extent) the Bloc Quebecois realise that making Canada greener requires both carrots and sticks. Besides, Jack Layton has done far more in both his public and his private life to implement environmental solutions that work and the Green Party has its share of anti-choice and anti-gay wack-jobs, even though it's officially pro-choice and pro-SSM.
Bloc Quebecois: While I appreciate the social and economic leftist ideals of Gilles Duceppe, a reformed-Marxist and a union activist known for organising immigrant workers in Montreal (Not your average sovereigntist...lol), I have a problem with the fact that the party still has some right-wingers hanging on (the Bloc is a Progressive Conservative off-shot that originally differed from its father by being sovereigntist, Quebec-first, and somewhat more to the left), although I'm pleased that social democrats have have a lock on the party due to Gille Duceppe's leadership. I'm also not a Quebec sovereigntist. There is 1 riding in which I would have voted Bloc rather than NDP because the NDP had no chance to even get 5% of the the vote in that riding, the BLOC candidate was very progressive, and the Liberal incumbent wanted the government to throw people in jail for using file-sharing programs, fellated Bush's Star Wars policies on a regular basis, was extremely anti-gay, and did not want workers protected from occupational hazards or consumers to know if their food contained GM ingredients. In other words, she was worse than about 80% of the Conservatives. :-P
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