By: Mohamed Kamel

As we are approaching the Canadian federal election, we are asking to who we cast our ballot?

It you are a person of principle and care about the future of our country and our children, you will join me in voting in this coming election, and if you believe in Human Rights and feel disgusted with the situations around the world, especially this madness taking place at the south boarder. Also, the double standard of the western societies in dealing with Russia/Ukraine war Vs the genocide taking place against Palestinians for more than 80 years, we are in the same boat.

Analyzing the federal parties is not easy, taking their promises in account is a delusion, we need to check all parties and candidates’ history and where they stand from the main issue.

What is the position of the federal parties?

Voting for any of the conservative parties as committing suicide by giving away our future to extreme right-wing pro-genocide, pro-apartheid, they don’t represent us nor our values, don’t be deceived by their slogans about families’ values, these are not their real value, these are empty slogans.

Blanc check for the Liberal Party is another type of suicide, as they rarely take a principle stand without a real pressure form people and from parties as the NDP or the Green.   

Bloc Quebecois (BQ), Quebec Only Party, was a choice back then when it had a people interest in their agenda, and helped push the governments into decisions could help people needs. But this not anymore, as BQ became a party that lost their “raison d'être”, and now they exist just to be there, mostly stand for right-wing agenda, falsely wearing progressive face.

Voting for the NDP or Green, could be a good solution, but must be well calculated, as it could lead to a disaster of Conservative government majority or minority.

I believe that the best outcome of this election is a minority Liberal that can survive by a strong NDP, this could lead to best possible balanced government.

But how to achieve this?

This could be achieved by understanding what each political party stand for, and understanding the position of each individual candidate as well

Strategic vote ridding by ridding is our best option, this come through several possible scenarios, and must be calculated ridding by ridding, examples

-          We should vote for the Liberal Party candidate who is very strong in his positions from Human Rights and all our core values and is pushing their party to right direction.

-          When Liberal or Conservative candidate is wining with very big majority, (ex the winner has 25, 000 and the second has less than 10, 000) so the vote might not make difference but voting for the NDP will show higher percentage and give them better bargaining power

-          Serious competition between Liberal and Conservative, and the third party is very far, in this case we should vote for the Liberal Candidate, more chance to stop the Conservative

-          Serious competition between Liberal and NDP or Conservative and NDP, and the third party is very far, we should vote NDP, to bring more progressive seats to the parliament

-          Three-way race, Liberal, Conservative and NDP are very close, I would vote NDP, to bring more progressive seats to the parliament  

-          We can use Green instead of NDP in all these scenarios, if we believe that Green has better chance.

-          There are a few ridding where we should vote for the candidate that usually stand for the values, without consideration to any calculation, principles come first          

How to know the status and the statistics in each ridding?

-          Check Election Canada site it has all ridings result since federal elections started

https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=ele&dir=pas&document=index&lang=e

-          Check 338 pool and statics https://338canada.com/

-          Check CBC pool tracker https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/

-          History of the Federal Electoral Ridings, 1867-2010 https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ea8f2c37-90b6-4fee-857e-984d3060184e      

How to know the candidates position?

-          Check these links

• Muslim Vote.ca #VoteGaza  https://muslimsvote.ca/
• The Canadian Muslim Vote: https://www.canadianmuslimvote.ca/
• Fair Vote Canada https://www.fairvote.ca/
• Anything But Conservative (ABC) I don’t see them active this election
• NCCM https://www.nccm.ca/elections-2025/
• Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) https://www.cjpme.org/
• Green Peace Canada https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/

   

  -          Check the candidate history, on their social media and Canadian Parliament Sessions, if they were an ex-MP

• Liberal campaign https://liberal.ca/
• NDP campaign https://www.ndp.ca/
• Green Campaign https://www.greenparty.ca//
• Conservative campaign https://www.conservative.ca/
• Bloc Quebecois campaign (French only)  https://www.blocquebecois.org/

   

   

  Wishing all best luck and good choice, hope we elect who help in shaping better future.

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