Election Day
January 25th, 2006 | by MadHacktress |So yesterday was election day. We got ourselves a Conservative minority government… not bad. Not who I voted for, but my guy got in in our riding. The Conservative minority is a slim plurality and a shaky government nonetheless. They’ll probably have a nice honeymoon for some time until they try to push something through that doesn’t sit well with our other parties and then they’ll be done. It will be interesting to see if any party can form a majority in the coming years.
I applied for that position at the KFL&A Health Unit yesterday and got a reply from them this morning. I am looking forward to this position now as I think about it more and more. I miss web work and I really enjoyed working in the doctor’s office, I expect that the marriage of health care and web work would be enjoyable and satisfying. Not to mention working for a company that supports volunteerism more would be nice. I have been looking for outreach work as well.
Paul went off to a sales meeting today and didn’t get back home before the weather started so, I think, he’s staying out of town… or he’s not rushing back at the very least. Which is good, it makes me feel better to know that he’ll be taking his time or travelling when the roads are better.
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I wonder if the Bloc is what is going to make it so difficult for there to be a majority in the coming years. Of course, without the Bloc, the majority governments very well could be Conservative, too.
The Bloc definitely makes it rough. Just looking at the math of it, the Bloc has recently done a good job of getting about 50-ish seats… that leaves 103, after the majority (155) is achieved, for the rest of the parties.
We may see our first real coalition government before all of this is done… or we’ll be up to the 50th Parliament before the end of the decade.
I’d still rather have your system with more than just two choices, though. Especially with the way that the one is trying so hard to mimic the other. Politics in this country really suck.
We have more than two choices to vote for, yes… but, realistically, we only have two viable options for forming a government - without coalitions. Since this country has never seen a coalition government we’re not that much different than the States. We’ve got as close to a two party system as they do. It’s more of a two-and-a-half party system with the Bloc, but they can never form a government.
It would be nice for the NDP to be a viable choice in this country, giving us a third party… but, unfortunately, their platform is just too left wing for our country. Ontario has a bad history with the NDP in power and a government in Ottawa needs the backing of Ontario for a majority.
Yeah, I realize that the NDP has little support outside of the cities and some of the poors of the rural areas. But it would have been nice if people who disagree with the conservative stance, rather than lodging their protest vote with the conservative and hoping for the best, would have voted for the NDP instead. But I realize that this is probably unrealistic, especially given the experience in Ontario when the NDP was in control. It’s just my being idealistic and thinking that should vote for who they agree with, rather than who is a “realistic” choice. *shrugs*