The honorable member from the Mushroom Kingdom has the floor...So here is what seemed to happen in Canada since I was busy with my NaNoWriMo project this year:
- Back in October, 60% of eligible voters elected a Conservative minority government.
- The world's economy is now in a recession.
- The Americans elected Obama as president. What this has do with Canada, I'm not sure, but it is one of those "I thought I'd never live to see the day..." things that was up there with "Red Sox winning the World Series" and "Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy gets released".
- Meanwhile, back in Canada, one of the solutions the government came up with to aide in the potential recession was to cut taxpayer's funding of all parties, and some other common sense spending cuts.
- The opposition parties(Liberal, NDP, and the Bloc Quebecois) themselves got butthurt over this proposal and now are using the guise of "Waahh! The Conservatives aren't doing a huge socialist-style economic stimulus!" as an excuse to form a coalition to oust the minority ruling party.
- The head of this proposed coalition? Stephane Dion, leader of the Liberals. The man who can barely speak English (and not in the charismatic good manner Jean Chretien used to either!), led his party to one of the worst loss of seats in recent history, and was being forced to step down because of such a poor showing in the October election. This is the man who this coalition wants to be prime minister? Think Capt. Picard here sums up my thought on that:
Truly, I am speechless. Suddenly I am liking the American-style two party electoral process better than our own mess here. I'll be back later with five potentially better candidates to run our country later today.
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