The election
I haven't had a chance to sit down and organize my thoughts about the federal election on June 28th. I'll start off with a quote from Ben Kowalewicz from Billy Talent:
"Thank you Canada for not electing a conservative government. I mean, the Liberals aren't much better, but Stephen Harper would have been our own George fucking Bush."
Damn right. Thank you Canada for electing not necessarily a Liberal majority, but for beating Harper and the Conservatives. And with the NDP earning more federal seats than they have in a long time, we at least have a left-wing majority, even if the Liberals are going a little pink. The important thing is we won't be having too many victories on bills that propose to deregulate post-secondary tuition costs (anyone who wants to go to Queens should love that, even though education is truly in the hands of provincial governments, but is still affected at a federal level), develop a two-tier health care systems, and give the upper class those healthy tax cuts.
Quite frankly, having taxes remain the same, or even go up a little bit doesn't bother me, as long as I know I won't be paying through the nose every time I go to the doctor's or walk into the doors of a school. I get about $400 back at the end of every year, and believe me, if I only get $200 back, I'm sure I can find a way to get by.
Now, I voted NDP. I was torn between voting NDP, with whom I agree more than the Liberals, or voting Liberal, purely to help mount a defense against PC candidate David Tilson. Tilson was our MPP for years before he vacated his cushy seat in favour of Ernie Eves. He then decided to run federally, and take on incumbent Murray Calder, who really should have blown him out of the water. Instead, Tilson beat Calder by a few thousand votes. This, to me, was very depressing. Calder lost a lot of support because the riding lines were redrawn, and he lost his hometown of Mount Forest, so a considerable amount of support would have been lost there, but really, not that many votes. As soon as Tilson decides to run, everyone in Orangeville's a conservative. Yet, even though Orangeville elected a conservative MP, both Blockbuster's are totally out of their copies of Roger & Me, and Bowling for Columbine, and I'm sure Fahrenheit 9/11 will be totally sold out. Sorry, bit of Blockbuster propaganda there.
As for the future, hopefully the minority government will wake the Liberals up a little and make Martin more than a caretaker PM. It'll make him act on more than deciding on Canada's official horse.
So, thank you Canada for proving the pundits wrong and voting left.
I haven't had a chance to sit down and organize my thoughts about the federal election on June 28th. I'll start off with a quote from Ben Kowalewicz from Billy Talent:
"Thank you Canada for not electing a conservative government. I mean, the Liberals aren't much better, but Stephen Harper would have been our own George fucking Bush."
Damn right. Thank you Canada for electing not necessarily a Liberal majority, but for beating Harper and the Conservatives. And with the NDP earning more federal seats than they have in a long time, we at least have a left-wing majority, even if the Liberals are going a little pink. The important thing is we won't be having too many victories on bills that propose to deregulate post-secondary tuition costs (anyone who wants to go to Queens should love that, even though education is truly in the hands of provincial governments, but is still affected at a federal level), develop a two-tier health care systems, and give the upper class those healthy tax cuts.
Quite frankly, having taxes remain the same, or even go up a little bit doesn't bother me, as long as I know I won't be paying through the nose every time I go to the doctor's or walk into the doors of a school. I get about $400 back at the end of every year, and believe me, if I only get $200 back, I'm sure I can find a way to get by.
Now, I voted NDP. I was torn between voting NDP, with whom I agree more than the Liberals, or voting Liberal, purely to help mount a defense against PC candidate David Tilson. Tilson was our MPP for years before he vacated his cushy seat in favour of Ernie Eves. He then decided to run federally, and take on incumbent Murray Calder, who really should have blown him out of the water. Instead, Tilson beat Calder by a few thousand votes. This, to me, was very depressing. Calder lost a lot of support because the riding lines were redrawn, and he lost his hometown of Mount Forest, so a considerable amount of support would have been lost there, but really, not that many votes. As soon as Tilson decides to run, everyone in Orangeville's a conservative. Yet, even though Orangeville elected a conservative MP, both Blockbuster's are totally out of their copies of Roger & Me, and Bowling for Columbine, and I'm sure Fahrenheit 9/11 will be totally sold out. Sorry, bit of Blockbuster propaganda there.
As for the future, hopefully the minority government will wake the Liberals up a little and make Martin more than a caretaker PM. It'll make him act on more than deciding on Canada's official horse.
So, thank you Canada for proving the pundits wrong and voting left.
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