.....ONLY CANADA CAN HAVE A FEDERAL ELECTION THE MAJORITY DID NOT WANT..... .....But the leaders of 3 Canadian Opposition Parties of Canadian Parliament Wanted this 2011 Election for Unexplained Reason They Gave.... ForgetTheBoxNet 2011 Canada Election Party Leaders: (from right to left) Prime Minister Stephen Harper (PC), Oppostion Leader: Michael Ignitieff (Liberal), Jack Layton (NDP), Elizabeth May (Green Party) and Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois) BUT THEN AS CANADA IS GOVERNED BY A DEMOCRATIC PARLIAMENT AND A DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUION ....this 2011 federal election has to take place - the 4th such election in last 7 years-  because some 34 million Canadians have failed to elect a majority government to govern Canada for a normal period of 5 years... ....BUT IN CANADA THERE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLE TRUTH IN THE WHITE NOISE OF ANY LIFE ACTIVITY.... "There are, in fact, different competing agendas that voters are choosing from on Monday, May 2, 2011. That is a real choice. It's not just rhetoric or spin." - Says Goldy Hyder, past policy director for the federal Progressive Conservative party and former chief of staff to Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980.   PVAF is publishing and sharing today's news/knowledge story.....so that the current humanity in all the world nations today....can by studying and knowing Canada emulate, to fit each individual world nation, ....the humane lifestyle of harmonious pluralism in daily living with human diversity of race and religion and lifestyles.... of continual non-violent debate about how to progress and evolve to ever increasing life well-being, welfare and prosperity.... based on non-violent lifestyle of humane mediating for the best knowledge of holistic life-sciences available for a peaceful lifestyle accepting the universal principles of equality granted to human diversity by laws of Nature and God with their  Creations including Human race and its Humanity, Religions which affects diverse Lifestyles....To understand in-depth this today's sharing please use the hyperlinks in this publication.....     Please click on the next line.... to enlighten yourself the mind-set of Canada's 2011 Federal Election and the election platform of each of the 4 parties contesting the 20111 Canadian Federal Election.... as explained on the pre-election day in Edmonton Journal newspaper from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada......and an analysis of Canadian election psyche as analyzed by one of Canada's leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail....along with a backgrounder list of related stories how this Canadian election started and will end on May 2, 2011.....     .....KEEP SCROLLING TO ENLIGHTEN YOUSELF OF THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE IN DAY TO DAY CANADIAN SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND GOVERNANCE... .....for United Nations To Proclaim Canada As The Best Place In the World To Live On This Planet Earth  For The Last So Many Years.... THE ELEVEN PROVINCES OFCANADA ...which will collectively determine who governs and how the fate of Canada starting May 2, 2011... Wikipedia Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe (centre) campaigns Friday, April 29, 2011 in Magog, Quebec, Canada. . Bloc Quebecois, is the Quebec's Separatist Party with a pre-election 47 seats in the Canadian Parliament, which promotes Quebec separating from Canada as a Sovereign Country and is supported by about 40 percent of Quebec's French origin peoples. But it is only in Canada on this planet Earth that a separatist party is not only allowed full expression of its rights under the Canadian Constitution but is also allowed to be an opposition party in the Canadian Parliament along with the pre-current election party in power: The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (143 seats); the Chief Opposition: Liberal Party of Canada, the second largest (77) seat holders in the Canadian Parliament; and the New Democratic Party with 37 members among a total of 308 elected members of the Canadian Parliament... Photograph by: Chris Wattie, Reuters, Edmonton Journal Calgary Herald; Postmedia News With Files From Global News Conservative Leader Stephen Harper greets supporters during a campaign rally in Windsor, Nova Scotia, on Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 2 days before voting ....canadian Voters offered vastly different political and governing styles... .....NDP Surge Changed Face Of 2011 Candian Election.... (From Edmonton Journal: May 1, 2001: By Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald, Postmedia News With Files From Global News ) As Canadians head to the polls Monday for the 41st general election, they'll be choosing between federal leaders and parties selling vastly different styles, policies and visions for a seemingly polarized country./> After 36 days of campaigning, the Tory blue wave and Liberal red machine have suddenly run head on into an NDP orange crush that has turned the election race on its head and leaves the outcome one big question mark. In the process, the campaign has laid bare the governing blueprint for each party, priorities of the leaders and where they would take Canada in the coming months and years. It has also left voters debating whether they want a majority government, or more years of minority rule and the subsequent checks and balances -and ensuing parliamentary bickering -that goes with it. "There are, in fact, different competing agendas that voters are choosing from on Monday," said Goldy Hyder, former chief of staff to Joe Clark and past policy director for the federal Progressive Conservative party. "That is a real choice. It's not just rhetoric or spin." Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has hitched his future and party's fortunes to the economy, running a play-it-safe, front-runner campaign that vows to chop government spending, and includes a series of modest fiscal measures such as tax breaks for families and small businesses in future years. Unlike past campaigns, he's urging Canadians to deliver him a stable Conservative majority government, warning of the economic instability that would come with a potential coalition between the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois. Jack Layton and his NDP -in unprecedented fashion -have surged in popularity in the home stretch of the race and suddenly find themselves in foreign territory: leading in Quebec and second place nationally behind the ruling Tories, according to several opinion polls. The NDP campaign has been built around Layton's personal popularity, as well as promises to "fix Ottawa" and stand up for Canadian families with enriched health care, education and other social programs partly paid for through higher corporate tax rates and a carbon cap-and-trade system. Harper admitted even he has been surprised by the recent surge of the NDP in the polls. In an interview on the Global News program Focus: Decision Canada, hosted by Carolyn Jarvis, the Conservative leader said despite the so called orange wave, the primary question of the election has not changed: Does the country want the next government to be a Conservative majority or a coalition? Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, in an attempt to resonate with Canadians, has opted for a campaign of "Iggy" unplugged, delivering classic stump speeches and shaking hands at events far-less scripted than those of Harper. He has invited all Canadians to rise up against Harper and climb back into the "big red tent" of the Liberal party, with progressive social policies but also prudent financial management of former Liberal governments. Both the Liberals and NDP have said they're not interested in the coalition government that Harper is warning Canadians about, although Ignatieff and Layton have said they would work with other parties if the Tories don't win the confidence of the House of Commons. Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe is desperately trying to hold on to a majority of seats in la belle province, as polls show his party trailing the NDP heading into election day. Green party Leader Elizabeth May, the only federal leader to visit Calgary during the campaign, has spent most of the race in her own B.C. riding as she tries to win the first Green seat in Parliament. Despite the parties' different visions for the country, some political observers believe it has been a sleeper campaign devoid of any hard policy announcements or clear road maps of where each leader will take the country -leaving voters scratching their heads at the ballot box. "We've all reverted to the Kim Campbell level, which is election campaigns are not the time to talk about policy," said Peter McCormick, political scientist at the University of Lethbridge. "Everyone has been playing it way too safe, way too close to their chests and way too cryptic." After five years of minority rule, Harper is promising a re-elected Conservative government will hit the ground running on the economy and focus its efforts on job creation, low taxes and eliminating the $40-billion deficit by 2014-15, a year earlier than initially expected. "I am confident we are going to win. But I think the choice is very clear and it's very close," Harper said at a rally Saturday in Ontario. He is pledging to trim enough fat from government spending to save $4 billion annually through a strategic review of program expenses, but is committed to ongoing six-per-cent annual increases in health transfers to the provinces. Defence spending and a law-andorder agenda will also be top priorities, with the Conservatives vowing to go ahead and purchase F-35 fighter jets under a sole-sourced contract pegged as high as $29 billion over three decades. But Harper has also outlined some bolder plans if he wins a majority, promising his government would eliminate the $2 per-vote public subsidy for political parties, kill the longgun registry, and roll 12 crime bills into at least one omnibus bill and push it through Parliament within 100 days of winning at least 155 seats in the House of Commons. Strong financial support for health care, municipal infrastructure and low-income seniors can only happen with a dynamic economy that's generating jobs and wealth for Canadians, said Harper lieutenant and Calgary Southeast incumbent Jason Kenney. "The overarching vision is on policies designed to promote economic growth because we believe everything else is ancillary," Kenney said. "There are some things that we have announced in our platform that we'll only try to do if there's a majority because otherwise it's bound to trigger a non-confidence vote, another election or worse, a coalition." Layton is promising an NDP-led government would resemble a bit of a modern-day Robin Hood: taking from big corporations and providing more to low-and middle-income Canadians. The NDP platform promises to hire more doctors and nurses, strengthen the pension system, create jobs by giving tax breaks to small business, help consumers by capping credit card fees and taking the federal sales tax off home heating, and set a "new tone" in Parliament that is more constructive. "We can do better. It doesn't have to be this way," Layton told supporters Saturday at a rally in B.C. "In this election, we do have a choice." He's also vowing to eliminate potentially $2 billion in federal subsidies to "Canada's dirtiest energy sources, like the tarsands," and instead use the cash for renewable energy projects and green jobs. The party also wants a "more measured pace of development" that includes a moratorium on new oilsands projects until the environmental footprint is better managed. "He (Layton) is the Robin Hood in orange and green riding the orange wave," said NDP Edmonton incumbent Linda Duncan. "The vision for Canada is that Canadians have a voice in (their government) ... It's time Canadians get a fair shake." The Liberal platform, much like the NDP, is promising a cap-and-trade emissions reduction program that would impose greenhouse gas limits on large industrial emitters, as well as a ban on tanker traffic along British Columbia's northwest coast -which could halt plans for a pipeline project that would ship oilsands product to the coast. The Conservatives have previously promised a cap-and-trade system, but only if the U.S. follows that route. Ignatieff -whose party polls show is in third place behind the NDP -has vowed to slash spending, cancel a planned corporate tax reduction, encourage homeowners to make green renovations and allow citizens to vote online. Key platform planks include a $700-million boost to the Guaranteed Income Supplement, $1 billion for a post-secondary education financial aid package (that would provide a tax-free $4,000 subsidy to all high school students who attend university or college), $1 billion to help family caregivers, and $500 million for early childhood learning. "This has not been a frustrating campaign for me. It has been an inspiring opportunity to present our opportunities to the Canadian people," Ignatieff told reporters Saturday during a campaign stop in Ontario. The Liberals promise to save $3 billion in their first year in office -rising to $5 billion in year two -by increasing the corporate tax rate by 1.5 percentage points, to a level of 18 per cent. Like Harper, Ignatieff is committed to six-per-cent annual increases in health transfer payments and, like Layton, the Liberal leader would also scrap the government's plans to buy the fighter jets, whose costs continue to escalate. "Careful economic management is absolutely fundamental. That is at the core of the Liberal platform," said longtime Liberal incumbent and former federal finance minister Ralph Goodale. "It's going to take careful management of federal spending." May and the Green party are proposing income splitting for couples, reforms to employment insurance and the Canada Pension Plan, a corporate tax hike and a carbon pricing scheme to tackle greenhouses gases. © Copyright (c) The Edmonton Journal   ....AND NOW STUDY AN ANASYSIS OF THE 2011 ELECTION PSYCH OF CANADIAN VOTERS.... ....which would not likely give the election a predictable outcome imagined of a nation of immigrants from all over the world and a nation which has matured to prosperous and democratic adulthood since confederation in 1867...  Infographic .....What's driving voters IN CANADA? ......Hope and boredom...... CANADIAN Federal election: ..... a tight race between boredom and hope..... ....Stark divisions in the public mood mirror the twists and turns of the most unusual election campaign in Canada's history....   (From: Canadian Globe and Mail:  April. 30, 2011: Patrick Brethour, Sunny Dhillon and Daniel Leblanc at Vancouver, British Columbia  and Magog, Quebec.) HOPE BEATS FEAR - It’s a truism of modern election campaigns, and the 2011 Canadian federal election is no exception. But hope should hold off on any victory party; it is in a tight race with boredom as the dominant mood of the Canadian electorate on the cusp of the May 2 election, according to data from Nanos Research. Those numbers go deeper than the typical horse-race gauge of party support, to explore the prevailing undercurrents of public opinion – and to make sense of the twists and turns of what has become one of the most unpredictable campaigns in Canada’s electoral history, as the Bloc Québécois and Liberals have sunk, the New Democrats have soared and the Conservatives have stalled. The Nanos numbers also reveal stark regional differences in the mood of the electorate. Nationwide, 31.7 per cent of Canadians surveyed said hope best describes their feelings about the federal election campaign; 32.6 per cent said they were bored; anger was a distant third at 12.8 per cent, while fear came in at 10.3 per cent. Excitement placed dead last, with 5.9 per cent. Nik Nanos, president and CEO of the polling firm, said the findings indicate why the Liberal and Conservative campaigns failed to find traction. Liberal expectations that Canada would, in Leader Michael Ignatieff’s words, rise up to eject the Harper government hinged on anger that simply didn’t materialize. “It’s definitely the wrong message,” said Mr. Nanos. Similarly, dire Conservative warnings of the consequences of failing to elect a Tory majority would not have resonated much beyond one in 10 voters.br /> As for the NDP, it had the good fortune to have a strategy tailored, however unintentionally, to the electoral zeitgeist. Its feel-good approach – even its most negative advertising was carried off with a wink – clearly found purchase among the third of voters feeling hopeful. Like many of the trends in this campaign, those national averages mask deep regional differences. In Quebec, for instance, boredom is by far the prevailing mood, with 42.5 per cent of respondents using that word to describe their attitude toward the election. For Bloc Québécois supporters, that proportion is far larger, at 57.1 per cent. Along Rue Principale in Magog in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, near where Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe was touring on Friday, Solange Roy seemed part of that turned-off group. “We never make progress on anything. Instead of trying to find solutions, the parties are always fighting,” said Ms. Roy, who has voted for the Bloc previously, but this time out is still undecided. Bored voters could be turned off by a campaign filled with microscopic and distant issues, Mr. Nanos said. “Boredom can be a proxy for disappointment.” On Vancouver’s funky Commercial Drive strip, disappointment is the last thing on Dave Postnikoff’s mind. The 56-year-old has been voting NDP his entire adult life, but he said he senses a different mood – an upbeat mood – among his fellow citizens. “I feel hopeful. It just seems that people are waking up.” This time, he said, people seem to be getting behind a leader who’s less concerned about bickering with other parties. “I'm a little bit surprised. Pleasantly surprised.” The Nanos data back up his feeling; 41.9 per cent of B.C. respondents said they feel hopeful about the election, the highest feel-good proportion in the country. There are other deep regional divisions in the Nanos numbers, particularly on whether the Conservatives, Liberals or NDP should be at the helm of a minority government. Quebeckers overwhelmingly opt for an NDP minority government, with 43.6 per cent of respondents supporting that option, and just 21 per cent in favour of a Conservative minority. Nationally, 35 per cent of Canadians most like the idea of Tory minority, with support in English Canada ranging from 29 per cent in Atlantic Canada to 52 per cent on the Prairies. Conversely, enthusiasm for an NDP minority is lowest on the Prairies, at just 22.9 per cent. Outside of Quebec, the idea of an NDP minority government found its highest level of support in Atlantic Canada, where all three major national parties are in contention, according to the latest battery of polls. Canada-wide, the Conservatives hold a narrow single-digit lead over the New Democrats, whose momentum has not yet run out; the third-place Liberals are still falling and trail both the Tories and NDP by double digits. Whether those numbers produce a House of Commons that meshes with the mood of the public is impossible to say in an election that started out as mundane and ended up anything but. “I think it’s going to be an extremely exciting conclusion,” said EKOS pollster Frank Graves. Nanos surveyed 1,200 adult Canadians between April 26 and 28 for the poll. The national results are considered accurate to within 2.8 percentage points, 19 times out 20. Regional breakdowns have a higher margin of error.   ....now saturate yourself with more related to this story... ....to ensure you follow this election with a complete understanding....     .....AND THE $300 MILLION TO BE WASTED IN 2001 ELECTION  MAJORITY OF CANADIAN DO NOT WANT ... AND THOUGH IS FOR A UNCONDITIONAL BELEIF DEMOCRATIC LIFESTYLE....  COULD NOT BE AVOIDED EVEN BY THE PROFOUND LEGACY OF THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIPS OF PAST CANDIAN PRIME MINISTERS   DAILY SEEN BY CANADIANS ON THE BANK NOTES THEY USE... Current Canadian banknotes, depicting Canadiam Prime Ministers (top to bottom) Wilfrid Laurier ((11 July, 1896 to 6 October, 1911 ), John A. Macdonald (the first Prime Minister of Canada 1867–1873, 1878–1891), Queen of Canada (British Queen Elizabeth II, since Feb 6, 1952), William Lyon Mackenzie King (25 September, 1926 to 7 August, 1930) , and Robert Borden10 October, (1911 to 12 October, 1917 and 12 October 1917 to 10 July, 1920) For a complete listing and biographies of all Canadian Prime Ministers since the founding of Canada in 1867 please click here.... .....AND THEY SAY PICTURES ARE WORTH THOUSAND WORDS.... ....SO PVAF PRESENTS FOR YOUR JUDGING THE FACES OF THE 4 MAJOR PARY LEADERS ON SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2011- A DAY BEFORE THE CANADIAN VOTERS TELL THEM WHAT THEY THINK OF THEM....   Edmonton Journal From Top left clockwise: Stephen Harper (Progress Conservative), Michael Ignitieff (Liberal), Jack Layton (New Democratic) and Gilles Duccepe (Bloc Quebecois) ....AND GOD WILLING PVAF MAY SHOW YOU THE FACES ON MAY 2, 2011... .....after the Canadian voters rearrange the faces simply with their votes.... 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