They blew their chance....

I know I was naive to think they'd actually go for it, but I sent off quick questions to the NDP and the Green party, hoping to get quick answers. With their permission, I would have posted the answers on this blog - giving them unprecedented exposure to...................... at least a dozen more people. Anyway, one party never responded and the other simply sent some pre-formatted statements. Not at all what I was hoping for, but then who was I kidding, right?

So I decided to post the questions here and answer them myself - with the responses I would have liked to have seen from the parties I sent these out to:

1. As PM, what would you do with the gun registry? Scrap it. Everyone knows criminals rarely use registered weapons.
2. How would you improve health care in this country? Work to eliminate private care and start paying health professionals what they deserve, to prevent them from crossing the border into the US. Find ways to fund health education to make it possible for those who couldn't afford it to become health professionals.
3. How can the government help consumers save energy? By subsidizing more efficient vehicles and helping pay more for efficient retrofit of homes.
4. Should parents pay user fees for their childs' education? Never. It's time to audit school boards and find out where all our school taxes are going. If it all adds up - we need to spend more.
5. Private health care - good idea or bad? Bad.
6. What are your party's plans for our military? Give them the resources they need to do their job. We don't even have our own transport to get our soldiers where they need to be.
7. How would your party beef up our crumbling infrastructure? Invest more. We don't even have a four lane highway crossing our nation. That's sad. Our infrastructure is crumbling and we build things after they're needed.
8. The new law in same-sex marriage. Will it be left intact by your party? Yes.
9. The EI surplus is huge. Is it time to cut premiums or give some benefits back? Cutting premiums only makes the situation worse when things get bad. We need to spend EI money on the unemployed to get them into the kind of work that will keep them employed all year.