Well now this is going to seem like a bit of a filler post and in truth it is, school's crunching.
However: There is much good about the fact that there are websites for each of the major political parties. There needs to be some applause to all of them for taking advantage of this technology. They have even done the right thing in making policy information readily available, conflagration of intent and content becomes a difficult task for other parties when an informed voter can find out exactly what it is each group means to say.
Much as trying to figure out where the truth lies in Canadian politics feels like running into a wall these websites are something comparitively soft to run into. Maybe if the trend continues, if more dialogues, more arguments, more positions are publicly stated and debated democracy can flourish in the (ever evasive) participatory direction.
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Taking the recent rise of social media websites into consideration, our politicians have been slow to adapt to new technologies. It's true they all have fancy websites now, but they are sluggish in keeping up with platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. I expect these social platforms to play a much larger role in future elections...if they figure out how to use them.
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