All right, day before the election now so I better finish this up of it’ll just be weird. So now that you know all the players let’s get started.
Harper, really wanted to get a majority in this election so that he wouldn’t have to depend on making alliances with other parties to pass bills. I don’t know why he wants this because he’s been running the country like he has a majority and anything remotely controversial, sometimes good, sometime bad, the other major party the Liberals have generally just refused to vote on. This allows them to bitch and moan about it in the future. Clever guys they are. The scary thing about Harper is that he seems somewhat sane, why is that scary? What happens if he gets a majority and then gets hit by a bus? We all laughed at McCain/Palin.
Harper is seeing how pissing off certain aspects of the social strata can really bite him in the ass, hello cutting funding to arts. I have to give him a small tip of the hat to refusing to back peddle on the issue. He tried to show that he’d given money to the arts but no one listened and rightly so. Good on you to stick to your guns, shame on randomly slashing budgets for anything but oil.
Dion, oh god I don’t even know where to start. Well first off it’s not really his fault. The Liberals alternate between a Francophone and Anglophone leader and this time the pickings were slim for Francophones. What’s really odd is that his grasp of English, which the majority of Canada speaks, is pretty limited. Hell the leader from the French separatist party speaks better English. Dion is akin to a small yappy, A.D.D. dog who wasn’t loved enough as a puppy. Watching him in the House of Commons was hilarious, you know that kid in class who always wanted to answer the teacher’s questions, that’s Dion. At one point he was pretty much saying anything to keep the spot light on him, “I’ll put in a carbon tax! What? You don’t like that? Um… no carbon tax!” If the Liberals form the Government the best case scenario is that Dion gets hit by a bus. (I hope this doesn’t happen ‘cause I like him as a person just not as a leader) And honestly thisisdion.ca, c’mon!
Layton, oh Jack this was your election to loose and well, I’ll keep a candle burning. No, I don’t think they have a chance of actually forming the Government but this was the NDPs chance to come out of the shadows and form the opposition. Then depending on how things went they might have had a slim chance next time round of forming the Government. What the NDP did right this campaign is present themselves as a party that was running to form the Government not just a dump vote for people who think it’s hip to vote for the NDP. People were tired of the Liberal shenanigans and are/were scared of the Conservative majority. Jack, if you don’t get the title of Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition tomorrow you have failed. Early in the campaign it looked like a sure thing, now as people are being scared shitless by some really fear mongering campaign adds, well they’re jumping ship like rats who’ve noticed the water coming in. Oh and Jack next time round, if there is a next time round for you, go a little lighter on the referring to yourself in the third person. Seriously.
Duceppe, well this should be short and sweet. Let’s just say I hate this guy with the white hot intensity of a thousand burning suns. That being said he is probably the only party head who is actually a leader. Duceppe not only has the best command of both official languages, he’s got a rapier wit, integrity and well an excellent idea of what Canadians want. This is a guy who wants to separate Quebec off from the rest of Canada and he’d make an excellent PM how sad is that? Duceppe, will be the reason Harper fails to gain a majority. For all the blustering the Liberals and NDP did, it’s going to be the seats in Quebec that the Bloc will keep, or gain, that will prevent the Conservatives from forming a majority. Though next time buddy rely less on comparing Harper to Bush and more on nailing him on his platform.
May, is winner of the most disappointing campaign award. Not only did she stupidly decide to run in a riding with a very popular incumbent but, after whining and complaining about not getting into the leader’s debate, when she finally does she blows it. Instead of attacking Harper’s lack of a platform, or bolstering Dion’s she should have been presenting her own. If she does not carry her seat in Central Nova then she fails outright as leader of the Green Party. Furthermore, I doubt that few people could accurately describe the fiscal and social priorities of the Green Party which again is an utter failure.
So tomorrow expect exactly what we have now to be reimplemented for another couple of years.
