Modeling Journey

The latest EKOS poll shows these two parties basically tied, each with around 31% to 32% of the votes, leaving a huge whack of close to 40% of the voters choosing other parties.

That combined total of around 60% of the votes is the same market share that the venerable General Motors in the US had in its heyday, when it was the undisputed king of world auto makers. Of course, since then, GM has steadily lost its market share, and now is basically a bankrupt, state-owned entity, with slim prospects for meaningful recovery.

And the Green Party has shown a steady increase in its market share here in Canada, with EKOS showing it coming in at around 11% now. The NDP is bobbing around at 16%.

Why no breakthrough for the two major parties?

Could it be because they are both bereft of sound ideas to actually provide good, well-paying, long term, permanent jobs for Canadians?

Could it be that they both are complicit in destroying the number of such good jobs in Canada?

Could it be (in the words of KOS), that they do not have an answer to this problem:

"What we're now facing are the consequences of a decades-long war on labor in this country which has eliminated a 'critical mass' of good paying, working class jobs - which once fueled the greatest economy on the planet. The domino effect has been utterly destructive, and we're really only just beginning to see that now.

The Titanic has already hit the iceberg, is taking on water, and will ultimately sink.

There's really no stopping that reality from occurring at this point.

A nation of "minimum wage" workers is what we've essentially become, and it's getting worse, not better. The powers that be continue to represent corporations who only look at next quarter profits and how to increase them by continuing to reduce labor costs. How can anything possibly change if we continue in this direction.

The irony, of course, is that big corporations in this country, enabled by our so-called representatives that they've bought off, fired their own customers."

Perhaps this is the reason why such a large number of Canadians are less than enthralled by either major party.