Kelly Christie nominated candidate - Green Party of Canada

[KanMan]

I am proud to announce that Kelly Christie was nominated as a candidate for the Green Party of Canada (http://greenparty.ca/) on April 8th, 2008. Kelly lives, works, and will be running in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's (http://www.pm.gc.ca/) Calgary Southwest riding.

Kelly has been consuming cannabis since 1974 and is considered a cannabis connoisseur by many who know him.

Kelly has been a member and a strong supporter of Calgary 420 Cannabis Community - Calgary 420 Cannabis Community (http://Calgary420.ca/) for a year now. He is also a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) â?º Cops Say (http://leap.cc/), Norml Canada - NORML Canada - The Reform of Marujuana Laws in Canada [ Home ] (http://Norml.ca/) and Canadian Cannabis Coalition - http://http://cannabiscoalition.ca/

His political focus will be on social justice.

Supporters and volunteers are welcome to join Kelly in his future political adventures.

Keith

[KanMan]

Calgary Southwest Green Party of Canada (http://Greenparty.ca/) moved up to third place and closed the gap between Green and Liberal.

October 14 / 2008 election results for Calgary Southwest
Voter turnout: 52,850 of 90,193 registered electors (58.6%)
Population 120,750 - No. of Electors on Lists 90,193


Conservative Stephen Harper 38,545 - 72.9

Liberal Marlene Lamontagne 4,918 - 9.3

Green Party Kelly Christie 4,732 - 9.0

NDP-New Democratic Party Holly Heffernan 4,122 - 7.8

Libertarian Dennis Young 277 - 0.5

Christian Heritage Party Larry R. Heather 256 - 0.5

Total number of valid votes: 52,850



2006 Election results

Conservative Stephen Harper 41,549 - 72.4

Liberal Mike Swanson 6553 - 11.4

NDP-New Democratic Party Holly Heffernan 4,628 - 8.1

Green Party Kim Warnke 4,407 - 7.7

Christian Heritage Party Larry R. Heather 279 - 0.5

Take notice of web site clearly stating cannabis as the main issue. Our clear message about cannabis did not hurt hurt us at all, in fact it helped our numbers.
Green Party of Canada | Calgary Southwest | www.greenparty.ca (http://www.greenparty.ca/en/campaign/48008)

[maladroit]

ZERO green candidates got elected last night...the combined liberal, NDP, and green votes add up to over 51% of all votes cast, but the conservatives formed the government with just 37% of the popular vote

canada needs proportional representation:
Proportional representation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation)

[killerweed420]

Just like the US everyone needs to get there butt out there and vote. I know its discouraging but its all you've got in a democracy. Atleast you guys can have multiple parties run for president. We only get stuck with 2 because of the electoral college.

[maladroit]

i always vote, but this election i didn't like any of the candidates for prime minister...it showed at the polls too - we had our lowest voter turnout ever: just 59% which would be high for the usa

canada voter turnout:
Elections Canada On-Line | Past Elections (http://www.elections.ca/content.asp?section=pas&document=turnout&lang=e&textonly=false)

united states voter turnout:
National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960–2006 — Infoplease.com (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html)

[KanMan]

Since 9% of the vote got the Bloc 50 seats and 7% of the vote got the Greens no seats I think maybe Welcome! | Fair Vote Canada / Repr�©sentation �©quitable au Canada (http://FairVote.ca/) is something to support. I will have to do some reading on what Welcome! | Fair Vote Canada / Repr�©sentation �©quitable au Canada (http://FairVote.ca/) is planning before I can say for sure if I support their cause.

Keith

[FreshNugz]

Well we already had a referendum on MMP style voting...and it lost hard. However I argue this is because of underpublication....people didn't have any idea what it was or how it worked...this was no coincidence.
Poor liberals don't want to publicize it of course, because they won't win their landslide ever again.

[maladroit]

we had a referendum on proportional representation in BC and got 58% support for changing the system, but it fell short of the required 65% support so the minority rules and we're stuck with the stupid first-past-the-post system