”At the end of the day, all countries are two-party countries and the reason for that fact is: people vote against, not for. They are looking for a big hammer, not a good idea.”

I really like this summary of it, I’m Dutch and although our politics features a lot of different parties they’re pretty much all alike due to a culture of compromise.
To many people that creep of a Geert Wilders seemed like the biggest alternative and according to recent polls he would have the largest amount of seats.

Even tough he’s a douchebag who misuses the term freedom the same way as was done with the word right.
On his site he even mentions ”Freedom from a lack of teachers” as a freedom(!).

At present, there are no plans to nominate candidates for this federal election.

Registration is a separate matter. FP collected over 130 percent of the signatures needed to register, but we were given 1 day’s notice of the Liberal’s decision to change the registration rules and, at that point in time, not all of the signatories had returned their confirmation cards. The Liberals essentially cancelled our application after we had done the footwork. Under the new system of registration and funding, parties that register without first having a warchest are (a) excluded from per-vote funding due to a threshold requirement, whilst (b) being limited in the number of dollars that they can receive, and the types of persons from whom they can receive funds. Given that the only advantage of registration is that it gets a party’s name on the ballot next to the names of its candidates (a non-registered party can run nominate candidates, but its name does not appear next to its candidates’ names), and given that we are not prepared to run a significant slate of candidates for this election, registration would impose restrictions, government oversight, and expensive book-keeping requirements, but FPC would get nothing in return for the effort.

It is not widely reported, but political parties – all of them – are having a very difficult time nowadays attracting candidates and money. As an example, I recently heard that the Bloc Quebecois raised about the same amount of money as Freedom Party of Ontario last year…but it received a ton more in the form of government funding (FPO received NONE…as it should be). The federal Liberals currently lack nominees in some ridings. The provincial PCs, in the last election, had to give nominations to several candidates by way of acclamation. At the same time, voter turnout is sliding quickly. Ultimately, it appears that people are losing interest in government as they continue to see it as nothing more than a hammer for socialists, businesses seeking protections and hand-outs, and religious folk.

Change is coming, but it certainly appears things are going to get a lot more dire before socialism becomes widely-enough discredited that voices of freedom are sought…and funded.