In a moment of confused weakness and boredom (I’ve been playing housewife since my work contract ended two weeks ago), I took the stupid CBC “Vote Compass” survey. I already know who I’m voting for, but I wanted to know who a survey would suggest. Here are a few examples of the problems I had with the questions:

Q7: “The environmental damage caused by the Alberta oil sands industry is exaggerated”
This question is asking about media coverage, not environmental damage.

Q26: “Quebec should become an independent state”
Agreed. But only if First Nations sovereignty is recognized as well.

Anyway, I got through the questions by answering “I don’t know” a lot and was surprised by these results:

So even though I map equally close to the Bloc, and even though I answered that there was close to zero chance I’d vote Liberal, and despite not having an opinion on half the questions, I’m told my views are closest to the Liberals. Yuck. (Next I did research on my “I don’t knows”, redid the survey and tested positive for NDP. Still not my actual choice, but closer.)

I thought all this was just ho-hum whatever until I read  “The CBC isn’t a news company anymore. It’s a campaign team” by Ezra Levant:

And — surprise, surprise — the Liberal Party is the default setting if you are at all wishy-washy about anything. So, Vote Compass helps you out.

By telling you to vote Liberal.

Try it out yourself. If you answer neutrally or “no opinion” to every question, it tells you you’re for Michael Ignatieff.

When I redid it and answered “I don’t know” to everything the results sounded metaphysical:

One last chance, I answered “Neither agree nor disagree” except when the middle option said “About the same as now”, in which case I selected “I don’t know”.

Tada:

I’m not convinced this is a conspiracy. It might actually be true that people who just don’t care are more likely to vote Liberal.