Federal Election 2011--Voting for Real Change

I'm voting for a real change in government: I'm voting for Randall Garrison, the NDP candidate in Esquimalt Juan de Fuca.

By voting for Randall Garrison, I'm also voting for Jack Layton and the NDP. I could never vote for the Harper Conservatives because Harper is a liar, a coward, and a bully who cannot be trusted with power, nor for Ignatieff because his party's policies are inferior to those of Layton and the NDP.

I'm biased, of course; I've been a member of the NDP for 25 years. During that time, I have, on occasion, been extremely angry with some of the actions the Party has taken at both the federal and provincial level. I stick with them, however, because they are the party which agrees most closely, not only with my values, but also with the practical measures needed to express those values in everyday life.

For example, the NDP understands that investment in the care and education of young people at all ages, is the foundation of a truly sustainable economy.

The NDP also understands that, in order to deal with both the effects of climate change, and to have greater control over our economic lives, we must make a transition to many more small businesses and fewer large conglomerates. We need many more small, highly-productive, organic farms, for example, instead of massive feedlots which burden the land with wastes that, properly distributed as on small, mixed farms, would nurture it.

We also need more small local processing firms--wineries, bakeries, furniture makers, and manufacturers of machinery, and providers of technologies, suitable for small holdings--to best utilise all the land's potential.

The NDP understands and supports this kind of thinking. That's why I'm voting for Randall Garrison, the NDP candidate in Esquimalt Juan de Fuca.

In my opinion, a vote for the NDP is a vote for real change.