lol Americans always think of Canadians as being All Liberal, All The Time so I guess I have to admit I never thought of anything else xD From our view, Canadian elections are more like pizza parties :D
haha, well I guess Canada mostly tends to be liberal. Of the 5 parties in the house, only 1 is right (though less right than Republicans) and 3 of them are left by American standards. Which is actually a bit of a problem because this time around they kind of split the lefty vote. The leftover 1 is a Quebec separatist party that doesn't really translate outside of Canada...
You'd have a liberal government right now with a Single Transferable Vote system. And I think they'd put Harper in a box full of spiders, I'm a little fuzzy on the mechanics of it.
Though you know, I wish we had a parliamentary system. But then I don't think anything would get done here. We'd constantly be calling for new parliaments...
it seems kind of like every government system has its outright flaws. at the moment, i can't get over the fact that the conservatives got a majority government with only 40% of the popular vote. there's just something unfair about that in your gut. >:/
well, seems like the prairies are always staunch conservative territories. i kind of assumed that, so i wasn't so disappointed. what i AM disappointed by is how many conventionally red areas decided to go blue this time. on the bright side, at least enough people found the liberals to be so undeserving of another chance that they voted honestly and riskily for the NDP. it was the only way that any 3rd party could've got their foot in the door.
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Hello, Layton! Welcome, Liz May!
We meet again, Harper...
This cracked me up, I'm sorry.
Though you know, I wish we had a parliamentary system. But then I don't think anything would get done here. We'd constantly be calling for new parliaments...
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I'm so disappointed that Calgary is still so gosh darn BLUE. And Harper ran in Calgary South.
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