For my Canadian readers

[athelind]

forthright looks for some silver linings in the election results.

Everything I know about Canadian politics, I learned from LiveJournal; I confess I'm only grasping a fraction of what's going on up there.* I do know that I read (and am read) by a lot of people in the GWNE who don't read each OTHER, so one thing I CAN contribute is CONNECTION.

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*Here's the fraction I do grasp, as well as I grasp it: new Lefty party caused a split in the votes, and some weird distortion of proportional Parliamentary procedure called "first past the post" has turned that into a Conservative majority. A "Canadian Politics For Unitistatians and Other Dummies" would be greatly appreciated.

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Comments

As much as I can

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

agree with most of his comments I still feel that we are about to feel even more separated from what I want Canada to be with a fear mongering bully for a leader. I feel that in many respects this is the beginning of a polarizing of my country.

The thought that a fully tuned Liberal would be more willingly to vote for thoughtless cold cack rather than the NDP with some thought for social justice and something other than business profit is some weird kind of liberal in my mind.

I take great joy in knowing that the PM will have to look across the floor of Parliament and have the NDP in his view after demonizing them. I hope it unsettles his intestinal lining.