Election Day 2006

[ciroccoj]

So by tonight we'll see if Canadians are capable of showing we're dumber than a sack of snow by electing a majority government that has campaigned with the promise of celebrating homophobia re-opening the gay marriage debate, screwing with the rest of the planet and fouling our own nests repudiating Kyoto, stealing from children to feed rich businessmen ending tax breaks to middle and lower income families and replacing them with tax breaks for businesses, and a host of other short-sighted, selfish and greedy (IMHO) questionable promises.

No, I'm not blinded by my biases, why do you ask?

At least I don't feel like I'm going to throw up, as I did during the American election. I figure our politics don't have quite as much of an impact on the rest of the world. It's still depressing, though. Because I have a terrible sinking feeling that by tonight we'll have a Tory government that will stay in place at least five years, and that's really... ack.

Comments

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but I think you're right.

And you know, as much as I was upset by the U.S. election, it's the Canadian one that's making *me* feel like throwing up. Because I thought Canada was the place I could go and feel like y'all were sane and reasonable and stuff, and it was just Americans who had allowed their steady diet of sick TV to make their reasoning faculties go kablooie.

Now, I just don't have much hope for humanity as a whole.

*waves maple-leaf flag in vain hope*

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

::headdesk::

And now I'm even more depressed, because you're right.

::forlornly picks up soggy little maple leaf flags that have been trampled into the slush by my fellow Canadians::

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

This is probably going to sound awful, but it makes me glad that I bailed. I came here fully knowing that the government was screwed up, and it's just too damned painful to watch my own country going to shit.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I bet.

::sigh::

This sucks.

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Until I hear that Harper got a majority government, I'm going to remain optimistic. I think a minority would force the Conservatives to make enough compromises that things wouldn't be too bad.