Election Rip Off

Well I’m glad that’s over, i watched last evening the so called election coverage. With occasional breaks to flick back to the ball game. What a nail biter, the Conservatives had a minority going in to the election. So in a effort to set goals, the wanted to come out of this election with a majority government. To the surprise of no one, the failed to achieve a majority, and again have a slightly more powerful minority. Which should mean very little to Canadians. If they had a majority that could potentially mean that, if for instance they had a controversial bill in the house of commons they could have it passed as there party holds the majority of the popular vote. That is of course assuming all the MP’s would vote in favour of the bill set fourth by there particular party. After they remove there knee pads and picking the pubes out of there teeth, they will almost always go with the values of there respective parties. After all one would hate to stand up and vote on a bill with there constituents concerns in mind and not there own salary. That’s crazy talk though, i know the billions of dollars we spend to have question periods where the two sides argue is very important. Think about it for a second, If the governing party passes a bill in the house for education spending or ending the war in Afghanistan. When the vote is held to see if all the members of the house of commons can approve the bill with a majority vote, big surprise the opposition opposes the bill. Wow what a novel idea, so when you are the oppostion party you go against the will of your competition. I realize im questioning democratic process here…But am I? Democracy by its very definition is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system. When a MP is elected in a particular riding, is it unreasonable to expect them to make the right decisions for there constituents even if it goes against the values of there particular party. It shouldn’t be, but it is.

Secondly I was amazed nearly every riding has a Green Party member running. Wow what a feeling to be runing for a party with such a diverse political platform. I wonder what there stand on foreign policy is, maybe if North Korea points a Nuke at Canada the would sprinkle Bio Diesel on the front lines, or recycle enough to convince the North Koreans to give Peace a chance. What a crock of shit, I personally do not see the point of having all of these start up political parties. Im not an expert on all of this stuff but i know for sure there exists a Marijuana Party, Communist Party, and probably more that i don’t know about. What kind of f#$%ing retard expects a semi educated voter to vote for a political party centered around an illegal drug? You cant even have a trace of this substance in your possession by law, yet lets create a political party centered around lt. Imagine if they ever got to power, once they legalized pot then what? Head over to England and toke up a reefer with Tony Blair and the Queen? Get F@#*ed. Communist party? Im pretty sure It doesn’t make any sense to base a party around a form of government completely contradictory to the type of government it is tryingto get ELECTED underneath.

So the election came and passed with as much excitement as a case of diarrhea, and we are left in the same position as before it happened. The Conservatives had an underlying plan as to there election timing, and don’t gobble up the propaganda of the possibility to achieving a majority government. They knew with pre electoral polls what the public’s opinion was, they called this election with one thought in mind only, U.S.A. If you were the conservative party holding a minority government, would you not desire to have the election come and go with no one paying enough attention to change the elected political party. You have in the States a huge and might I say very Interesting, campaign going on at the moment(a whole different blog topic). With a Black candidate on one side and a women VP candidate on the other, no shortage of news created there. So Harper calls an election, right in the middle of it all. Stephan Dion has verbal down syndrome, and any non french speaking voter would have noticed that. So Harper kept pretty quiet, did not say much and waited for Dion to dig his own grave. Then like a true gentlemen, jumped all over him on issues like the proposed “Carbon Tax”. Valiant and noble Indeed. I found it  humorous how when the markets crashed not much was said, of coarse Dion jumped all over it and blamed the Conservatives. Then after it rebounded a bit and never took the dive of some of the other nations, Harper comes out as the hero?

Anyway enough rambling, the Conservatives got what they really wanted more time in power. The liberals got smoked and you will see Dion stepping down shortly. The NDP gained more seats as did the Greens, and even the independents got 1 more seat. So what is the Canadian public left with? A increasingly inefficient minority government. More seats for MP’s with different party values, which by assumption would mean more inefficiency when trying to govern the country. A will stay impartial on this blog as to which party i support, but either way i think a mojority government would be more useful in governing this country.

Oh Canada, Thats the way I see it.

Chaio