Not Your Political Party

There are plenty of fringe parties out there. Your Political Party is just one of them, and like most fringe parties, they fail to address the largest issues that affect the masses. Instead, they take a small, often insignificant issue, and attempt to solve it, often with little to no success. There's is democratic reform, so let's take a look at the party's platform points.

YPP believes that government budgets are secretive, and should be made public to the last dollar. Not to shy away from fiscal incompetence, the YPP just like the PC Party of New Brunswick is pledging reduced taxes, and improved social services. The party is also pledging to conduct non-binding referendums on websites, and free votes in the Legislature.

While I'm not a fan of the BC Liberals budgets either, they are about as public as they can get. They openly admitted that education and health care funding is staying at the same level this year as it was back in 2009. That sounds pretty public to me. But they have a plan, to raise the debt. At least that's what would happen if we increased social services funding (in fairness, we should, but we need to raise taxes for businesses) while cutting taxes. Bringing in less money, while spending more of it and I would seriously question if we would still be in the black ink. In order to keep the public on their side, non-legally binding referendums would be held on websites. These would be a waste of time considering the results could easily be distorted online, and also discarded by the government. Finally, the party advocates for free votes in the Legislature on every bill.

This would easily be there strongest point for election. Like communism and prohibition it looks really good on paper, but fails horribly when put into practice. While I can't speak on behalf of everyone, I believe it's safe to say that a vast majority of the Canadian population detests minority governments. They have little control, and every day in the House of Commons is the day Parliament could end, and another election being held. Free votes ensure that we are entrenched in a pseudo minority government until the day we die. Canada needs effective, strong government, not nail biting votes every weekday. Also, when electing an MLA usually the constituent's needs are represented through the party. In other words, John Horgan is looking out for the people of Juan de Fuca as a New Democrat. Most Juan de Fucans oppose the HST, and he is opposed to it, thus he is representing the needs of the people. Finally, no law can extend into party caucuses to avoid votes falling along party lines, it just can't happen. Sorry to burst your bubble!

YPP has many more points beyond this, but the others have already been achieved through previous governments, and what points they do have do little to state how they would address the growing issues of the economy, health care, education, and the environment. There points aren't flawed, but rather unnecessary during a time of environmental destruction, economic despair, growing government debt and health care waiting lists. Besides, they only bother to elect one candidate per election cycle anyway...