Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada

Crisis of Canada's Electoral System
Harper Conservatives' Micro-Targeting and
Wrecking of the Electoral Process
Anna Di Carlo

When it comes to the Harper Conservatives, corruption knows no bounds and nowhere is this more true than when it comes to how they "get out the vote." The Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada (MLPC) referred to the outcome of the 41st General Election as an "electoral coup." The essence of a coup, electoral or military, is to seize power by methods that by-pass an expression of the will of the people. An electoral coup by-passes the society's established methods of determining the will of the people for the purpose of having that will turned into the legal will in the form of a government. Micro-targeting as honed and practiced by the Harper Conservatives, leading to their election victory to form a majority government, is in a manner very similar to organizing a coup. [more]