The next Prime Minister's responses to the issues below may affect your quality of life, tax rate or even your life span.

While campaign promises and statements should be considered with skepticism, they indicate the candidate's most likely political positions.

Answer the questions below to determine which candidate most closely matches your political views. If a choice is not important or not acceptable to you, select "No Preference".

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1. HEALTH CARE FUNDING: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to consider allowing individual provinces to privatize some parts of the health care system?

Keep health care system 100% public		Neither	Consider some privatization
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

2. NATIONAL HEALTH CARE STANDARDS: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate a strong federal role in enforcing national health care standards or do you prefer a Prime Minister and party that leaves health care standards up to individual provinces?

Federal government should set standards		Neither	Each province should set own standards
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

3. PERSONAL INCOME TAX: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate progressive personal income tax reductions (for example, proportionate tax cuts based on income brackets) or do you want aggressive reductions that affect some tax brackets differently than others (for example, a single tax rate)?

Gradual and progressive tax breaks		Neither	Aggressive reductions and a single rate
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

4. BUSINESS TAX: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate significant cuts to business tax as a policy to stem the so-called 'brain drain'?

Support drastic cuts to business taxes		Neither	Do not support drastic cuts to business taxes
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

5. NATIONAL DEBT: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate aggressive debt reduction or do you prefer a Prime Minister and his or her political party that will reduce the debt gradually?

Gradual debt reduction		Neither	Aggressive debt reduction
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

6. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to support federal regional development programs or would you prefer a Prime Minister and political party that advocates abolishing programs targeted to specific regions such as Atlantic Canada?

Keep regional development programs		Neither	Abolish regional development programs
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

7. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to promote a get tough 'law and order' agenda that includes stiffer penalties for young offenders and longer jail terms or would you prefer a Prime Minister and political party that focuses on crime prevention, attacking underlying social problems and rehabilitation of criminals?

Tough law and order agenda		Neither	Crime prevention agenda with focus on underlying social problems
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

8. GUN CONTROL: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate and enforce mandatory gun registration or would you prefer an American-style 'right to bear arms' approach?

Gun registration and control		Neither	'Right to bear arms' approach
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

9. FOREIGN POLICY: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate full and active participation in international peace and development bodies such as the United Nations or would you prefer a Prime Minister and political party that would scale back Canada's participation in such organizations?

Full participation in international organizations		Neither	Scale back participation in international organizations
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

10. NATIONAL UNITY: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to maintain the position that a 50% plus 1 vote on clear question is sufficient for a provincial government to unilaterally declare independence (UDI) from the Canadian federation?

50% + 1 vote on clear question is not enough for UDI		Neither	50% + 1 vote on clear question is enough for UDI
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

11. IMMIGRATION: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to maintain present criteria and levels for immigration or would you prefer one that promotes policies to reduce immigration levels and make the criteria more restrictive?

Maintain present criteria and immigration levels		Neither	Further restrict criteria and reduce immigration levels
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

12. ENVIRONMENT: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to place high importance on environmental concerns?

Support business and private property issues ahead of environmental issues		Neither	Support stronger environmental protection legislation ahead of business and private property issues
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

13. GAY RIGHTS: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate legislative equality for homosexuals in areas such as marriage and spousal benefits or would you prefer a Prime Minister and political party that promotes policies based on the 'traditional family' model?

Accept new or alternative definitions of 'family'		Neither	Encourage 'traditional family' model
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

14. ABORTION: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to advocate a 'pro-choice' stance or a 'pro-life' stance on abortion issues?

'Pro-choice'		Neither	'Pro-life'
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly

 

15. EDUCATION: Do you want your Prime Minister and his or her political party to use federal powers such as tax incentives to encourage the development of charter or religious schools, or would you prefer federal neutrality on primary and secondary education, which has traditionally been an area of provincial jurisdiction?

Federal government should remain neutral on education		Neither	Federal government should encourage private schools
Strongly	Somewhat	No Preference	Somewhat	Strongly