Well, by the looks of things, we have a conservative minority. Yay?
I'm surprised about some of the results. How in the heck did Belinda Stronach get re-elected? What did she ever do for Canada? Or for anyone for that matter? Except Peter Mackay, I guess. Svend Robinson lost. Yay. If you don't know who he is, just try and remember. His name does have a certain "ring" to it. *ducks rotten tomato*
Still, I wish the Green Party would have participated in the debates. They could have said, "There is a fourth option, you know..."
So, if all goes well and there are no more nonconfidence votes, we'll have a conservative government for the next five years. One gripe I have is that I can't see Steven Harper is going to be prime minister. I can't see. Steven Harper. Becoming Prime Minister. I actually said that. I'm not making this up.
So, w00t, I guess.
It's-a me!
- Matt
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- I can be a lot of things. I can be a university student that's going to be in his second year of university taking software engineering. I can be a musician that plays guitar and bass, and does some composing or arranging on the side. I can be a math or science nerd that makes plenty of calculus jokes, whether you want me to or not. I can be a hardcore gamer, as well as an Apple and Nintendo fanboy (though not nearly as bad as some people are). I can be a guy that tries to follow Christ with all his might. I can be just an all-around good guy to talk to. But most of all, I can be me, and that's probably the most important thing I can be.
3 comments:
Yeah, nobody's happy right now. The Liberals are unhappy because the Conservatives won; the Conservatives are unhappy because they only got a minority; the Bloc are unhappy because the Conservatives took away some of their potential seats. About the only happy people are the Greens, because they got 6% of the popular vote (well above the 2% they need in order to get $1.50 or something for each vote they get).
Oh, and don't worry about Belinda. Since the conservatives won, she'll be back.
And really, I'd take Svend Robinson over Hedy Fry any day. I can't stand Hedy Fry.
And, errm, I hate to break it to you, but the Greens would've been the 5th party in the debate. Although, really, they should've been the 4th in the English debate - why the heck were the Bloc in it?
Oh, and actually, if there's no non-confidence vote, it'll probably be less than 5 years - 5 years is the absolute max, but usually it gets called after about 4.
But that won't matter, because there will (grr, Blogger won't accept my <u> tags) be a non-confidence vote. As far as I know, Canada's never had a minority government that lasted a full term. The pundits are guessing 2 years, which is much longer than the average minority.
Not entirely true. Lester Pearson had a minority for a while, 2 terms, I think. It's not entirely hopeless. Probably, but not entirely.
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