I know this is just a CBC poll designed to drive readership to their website, but have a go if you feel like seeing how yours compares to mine.
I’m not sure how realistic the results are though. After all, there are questions pertaining to social conservatism that, no matter how you answer them, are not represented by any of the political parties. Further, the economic questions are not represented by the parties either. Cutting spending and government jobs? Nobody is offering that.
Missing from the CBC poll is a question about selling the CBC.
I was not impressed wiht the graph, The Conservative Party is not so far into social conservatism, nor it is currently operating that far to the right.
tried to take the “test” and the site kept kicking me out and wouldn’t start!! typical CBC … counting the hits but offering nothing.
This graph just proves that Liberals in Canada are really commies.
I took it and I got same result as you except for just a little south on the socon axis.
It’s jarring to see all that room on the graph ceded to the tories and how the rest jam up the left.
Kinda leaves the door open for a majority doesn’t it?
I’m thinking vote splitting.
Does this site not work for Macs? It won’t even start for me.
I think it’s quite telling where the CBC located the Tories on that graph. It’s almost like they are purposefully trying to place the Tories to the far right and south of the other parties, when their past platforms and actions would put them slightly right and south of the others.
Or do I have my tinfoil hat on too tight?
Or maybe that site doesn’t like Firefox…??
I’m not sure, sorry. I’m on Google Chrome and PC.
Something strange about this program: at the end of the poll you can say whether things are “important” or “not important” to change where you place in the graph. When I move taxes from “important” to “not important” I become *more* economic right. Am I missing something?
The good old political spectrum. I don’t know if you know this or not, but the CBC would NEVER stack the deck against Stephen Harper. To even suggest this is outrageous.
Okay, I’m being facetious.
Hi. I tried this. I got my circle almost entirely in the bottom right quadrant, with a touch of the circle over on the bottom left quadrant. Looks like I’m really Conservative… no kidding!
I found it funny as was mentioned: CPC in their own league. That should make it clear that there really is only two choices this election: the Blue door, or the Separatist/Treasonous Coalition door.
And I have a Mac and was using Firefox, so I don’t know why it wouldn’t be working for you guys…
Later!
…that there really ARE only two choices…
Bad grammar = my pet peeve. : p
What shite.
“The social liberalism dimension reflects an emphasis on individual liberties” does nothing of the sort – it reflects an emphasis on social liberalism, i.e., collective “rights” or social “justice” have primacy over individuals.
“The social conservatism dimension reflects the belief that government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what might be considered traditional values” is equally bogus when applied to the gun registry question (and likely others).
The fact that I’m against the gun registry has nothing at all to do with fur traders in canoes or early prairie farmers or any other other appeal to tradition. It’s an expression of the same anti-authoritarian tendency that informs my opinion about marijuana possession (it should be legal, even though every regular pot smoker I’ve ever known was a complete bore.)
Adrian,
Interesting sight you found on CBC. I come about the same as you on the economic line, but way further south on the Social Con side of the chart. Probably closer to Hinchey’s Store.
I love the blog as always. I hope you are planning on doing something similar to what you did in 2008 with the tracking of the polls again.
Keep up the good work and good luck with your upcoming finals.
Rocky
This one looks a little more accurate, IMHO.
http://politicalcompass.org/canada2008
I took the survey and my check mark appeared almost on top of the CON icon. However, for me, the problem with the Conservative government is that they’re not conservative enough. I would move the blue CON icon closer to the center of the two axes, and I’d move all of the other four toward the top left — and closer to each other.
However, in spite of its CBC provenance, I have to like that graph. It does show the reality that there are very few ideological differences between the Liberals, NDP, BQ and Greens. It also shows that the Conservative Party is clearly distinct from the others. A lot of Canadians don’t grasp this basic fact, so I can’t criticize that graph even if I’d quibble with its details.
@CJ
Suppose you’re an organization engaged in a multi-generational project to manufacture a certain universal Canadian truth. One phase of this project is dedicated to conditioning millions of Canadians to reflexively vomit when exposed to terms such as “right wing” and “social conservative”. Later, you capitalize on the success of this earlier initiative by carefully constructing a survey and graph highlighting the distance between a party of far-right monsters and a large number of parties representing a broad social consensus.
It would be quite easy to construct such a survey: start with a (much?) larger set of questions, run some simulations to select various subsets of those questions, and, using either brute force or simple geometric calculations, select the subset of questions that produces the desired clustering of parties.
It was perfect for me. It does fairly accurately test us based on these considerations. I was liberal. I’m not 100% happy with them, but ANYTHING TO GET RID OF HARPER!!!!!