Hello Blog People,
I apologize in advance, I have neglected my newly created blog recently due to... well, life. But, if I am determined to do this blogging thing, then I promise to be better about it.
I am going to jump back in time a bit to talk about the election and the results. I admit, I was shocked. I expected the Conservatives to win, I expected the NDP to gain seats, I did not expect the total decimation of the Bloc Quebecois and the Liberals, especially in Quebec. And yes, I bet Stéphane Dion is sitting somewhere, laughing his ass off at [Michael] Ignatieff, but so is the rest of Canada. I think what was proven most with this election is that Canadians are tired of elections.
I am not a Conservative, nor do I suppose I will ever be a Conservative and I do not necessarily approve of how the election came about, but I am not unhappy with the outcome of the election. We have had 5 elections in the last ten years, doing the math, that works out to one every couple years at approximately $270 million dollars a pop. And doing more math, that works out to be over a billion dollars (and who said math was my weak subject). The last three elections have elected the Conservatives to government, even giving the first election a by, that still brings it to $510 million on elections that repeated results that voters had already voted on.
On the whole, Canadians do not like being doubted. They chose their government, and they have been repeatedly over the past few years, being told “Nope, wrong answer, try again. We didn’t really like your choice”. So they spoke up, they voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Conservatives, giving them the majority that Stephen Harper has been longing for. Now, we definitely will not be forced through another election for another 4 – 5 years, because Stephen is not going to just give this up. A majority gives him almost unprecedented power to do whatever he wants, no more ‘votes of non-confidence’, no more political alliances stopping him. He won, accept it.
A majority is not necessarily a bad thing, economies statistically do better during a majority government then during a minority, which might be what Canada needs to make that last leap out of the recession. I hope that the NDP does a good job as the official opposition, and that Jack [Layton] doesn’t get carried away with his recent success and forget what the opposition is there to do.
So, here’s to the results that Canadians chose, let’s see what they bring.
Photo from http://www.pixdesk.ca/2010/05/stephen-harper-cowboy-photo-published-in-book/
- AMBER
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