How do I get started with deciding which political party to vote for this year’s Canadian election?

I am of age to vote now and I want to take my opportunity to try and influence the way Canada is going to be run by voting.

However, I don’t know where to start. I already tried the CBC Compass which matches you up with your political party, and I got Conservative. But it says something around the lines that they want to send more troops out of Canada and are more for private health care. Now I am unsure whether this is good or not, as war (or anything economics related) is not my “field” of interest, so I’m completely clueless on what I want for the economy, the armed forces, etc. This means that I’m not going to make a shot judgement and say whether sending troops out is bad or not, since I am not aware of the issue. Same goes for any other issue like more independence in the health care system. I don’t know if I’m for that either!

How do I decide what I want, and who to vote for that will get what I want?

I’m a science student, and I’m hoping to get into dentistry and maybe own a business. Now that’s far away, but I don’t know if who is going to run the country now will influence my career prospectives in the future.

Thank you.
Thanks, ksantimia! I posted on both just incase. Canadians (like myself) tend to go to “.com” instead of “.ca” =P

Online Voting?

If it were possible to work out the technical details, who would vote online?
– How much more accurate would the vote be?
– Do away with the electoral college?
– What kind of scandals (hanging chad) would result?
– Ideas to make it happen? (ID card reader?)

I think that if the US would change it’s voting procedures, more people would vote.

How do we change the voting process so that we are able to vote online?

We are able to file our tax’s online, register our children for school online and etc. So why can’t we vote online? We would have a larger amount of people going through the process. Lets face it. After work, taking care of the kids and everything else that distract us in our daily lives its really hard to stand in long lines. Especially when you are worried about whats next one the the agenda after you’ve been there for hours. There has to be a better way. So how do we do it. Somebody please … what is the solution?
We are able to file our tax’s online, register our children for school online and etc. So why can’t we vote online? We would have a larger amount of people going through the process. Lets face it. After work, taking care of the kids and everything else that distract us in our daily lives its really hard to stand in long lines. Especially when you are worried about whats next on the agenda after you’ve been there for hours. There has to be a better way. So how do we do it. Somebody please … what is the solution?