How I would have voted after my favorite Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid, resigned as Liberal leader:
1921: Liberal (Well, Mackenzie King was Lauriers designated successor, so I probably would put my faith in him. Really, there'd be no way for me of knowing that he'd eventually try to talk with Laurier's spirit through use of mediums. Plus, I would have admired his opposition to conscription back during WWI, his scholarly background, his attitude to the west and his pragmatism)
1925: Liberal
1926: Liberal (the Liberals are dealing with social democrats in the Progressive and Labour parties, but some social reform I would believe is desirable. Plus, I don't like them protectionist Tories the least, and would be particularly inclined to vote against them after the scandalous premiership of Borden)
1930: Liberal (I like what Mackenzie King has done to bring power to the provinces)
1935: Liberal (my loyalty to the Liberal party has proven remarkably prudent after Bennett's remarkably chaotic and poorly planned “Canadian New Deal”)
1940: Liberal (Keep good old Mackenzie King, I would have thought, plus I'd be angered with the oddity of the Conservatives running under the name of “National Government” when they were in opposition)
1945: Liberal (The Progressive-Conservatives is one incoherent mess, just consider the they've adopted as an example of how paradoxical they are)
1949: Liberal (I like St. Laurent's modesty and preference for halting spending and plannng following WWII)
1953: Liberal
1957: Liberal
1958: Liberal (Lester B. Pearson may have said a few tactless things, and no doubt he has been slaughtered in the House of Commons by Diefenbaker, but still, I'd stand by Pearson, as unlike Barack Obama, this is a man I feel firmly deserved his Nobel Peace Prize. He's already a proper statesman and Prime Minister-in-waiting in my eyes.)
1962: Liberal
1963: Liberal
1965: Liberal (Single-payer isn't my personal favourite for when it comes to universal health care. Still, I'd understand Pearson's reasoning. Plus, I like his race-free immigration system.)
1968: Liberal (Had I been a Canadian at the time, with the same views I hold now, I probably would have been somewhat skeptical about voting a former CCF member who'd only recently joined the Liberal Party to the premiership, but then again, on the whole, I would have liked the Omnibus Bill, and probably wouldn't have been immune to Trudeaumania.)
1972: Progressive-Conservative (And I who never imagined myself voting Tory. Still, Trudeau is too left-wing for my taste, and Robert Stanfield does appear supportive of free trade. Plus, he doesn't seem to be as much of a rabbid polemic as Diefenbaker)
1974: Progressive-Conservative
1979: Progressive-Conservative (I think I would have liked Joe Clark a lot)
1980: Progressive-Conservative
1984: Progressive-Conservative (Brian Mulroney would probably have made a very good impression of me, inspired as he was of the policies of liberalization that's sweeping the United States and Britain)
1988: Progressive-Conservative (Only option for me. The PCs want a free trade agreement with the United States, they have my full support)
1993: Reform (I'd probably be more inclined to vote Liberal this time around than PC, because the Liberals promised to get rid of the GST, but I think that it would be the Reform Party who'd et my vote. They seem most likely to fix the deficit that Mulroney has created. Plus, there's still the whole renegotiating NAFTA thing with the Liberals I won't like.)
1997: Reform
2000: Progressive-Conservative (I'd disagree with Joe Clark's unwillingness to cooperate with Reform, but I'd still like the man. Plus, he seems more Prime Ministerial than Stockwell Day.)
2004: Conservative (I like Harper)
2006: Conservative
2008: Conservative (I like Dion for his work in settling the Quebec question back in the 90s, and I maintain that history will judge him a much greater statesman than we today hold him to be. Nonetheless, I think Harper is more capable as a Prime Minister)
2011: Conservative (Michael Ignatieff, why did you ever leave academia? You were a far more capable scholar than an opposition leader. In any case, I wouldn't have liked a Liberal-NDP coalition at all and one that depended on Bloc support would have appeared remarkably unstable).
