Another Election Under Our Belts - and we survived intact

Well, it's finally come to pass... the Conservatives have come away from our most recent election with a clear majority, based on about 40% of the vote.  The Teflon Team fooled the heck out of me ... and fully 60% of the population.  All the lying, cheating, stealing and skull-buggery of the last 5 years of Conservative minority government didn't seem to phase the Canadian voters.  Apparently, Canadians have a pretty mushy interpretation on the Conservative concept of 'getting tough on crime'.

The NDP are the Official Opposition, the Bloq Quebecois have been decimated and the Greens now have an elected seat in the House.  Who'da thunk that would happen?

For me, This election had its pros and cons.

On the plus side, the NDP has long deserved an opportunity to show what it can do Federally.  Now they too have a mandate to do just that, and Mr. Layton hasn't wasted a minute getting his message out.  "We will not be denied", says he.  (my words)

Secondly, the Bloq has been all but eliminated from the political landscape, at least for a while even though they might show up under a different banner bearing the same message.  It piques me that they have taken so  much from the Canadian Treasury in the name of Separatism and given so little in return.  Perhaps it's time to re-write the history of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Britain defeated French forces in Quebec).  If we re-write the story of that battle, letting the French have a victory much like all the other victories in their long and illustrious history of armed warfare, then the Quebecers would have to support the rest of Canada instead of the other way round.  Novel idea, don't you think?

And the Liberals???  What of the Liberal Party of Canada?  Qu'elle surprise, n'est-ca pas?   They have suffered the worst blow in their long and illustrious history.  With only 34 seats in the House of Commons, they do not even qualify as Official Opposition.  They are in disarray and circling the drain.

Mr. Ignatieff, who had led the Liberals to this great loss, although not entirely on his own, as party strategists and back room boys and girls had a major hand in the ho-hum, heads in the sand approach that the Liberals were directed to take ... has now resigned and taken a University teaching post in Ontario.  You see, Steve...he didn't run back to Harvard just because you wouldn't let him play in our sandbox...

Adieu, Mr. Ignatieff...and bon chance!


And, now for the icing on the cake!!!  The Leader of the Canadian Green Party, Elizabeth May

 crushed a Conservative Cabinet Minister ... Gary Lunn.

These are interesting times we now live in and only time will tell just how resilient the Harperites will be in the jaws of the little guy in the orange get-up.