I wasn't going to vote because in my riding it's only a contest between the pro-genocide Conservatives and the pro-Genocide Liberals. And I can't put the Liberal enabling of Israeli genocide of the Palestinians into isolation and imagine that I'm voting "lesser evil." Too much "evil," not enough "lesser."
I wasn't going to go through the bullshit exercise of voting for a third party to have my vote rendered null and void by our archaic "first-past-the-post" electoral.
But then I saw the "Vote Palestine -dot-ca" website and my local NDP candidate checks off all their boxes and I thought that deserved my making the effort to go and expresss my support. I also gave them some money.
Then my dentist's office emailed me to tell me that as of May 1st I can apply for the Canadian Dental Care Plan, which is great because I need to put a crown on one of my teeth and I don't have insurance. And that program exists because of the NDP.
So, ... my vote is a statement and nothing more.
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