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So, my fellow Canadians...
14 years ago
General
...does your ass hurt? Mine does.
Soooooo... election day has come and passed... the politicions can stop flinging shit at each other (I'm looking at you, Layton.), ballots have been cast and, for the first time in a long time, we have a majority leader...
...the same leader we fuckin' had before this entire stupid ordeal began.
Man, I remember when it all began... the few days leading up to the non-confidence vote that started this whole election landslide. The Conservatives were in the hot seat, being crapped on by both the Liberals and New Democratic Party (NDP)... and up to this point, sure... there were some good reasons to do so... the G24 summit (and how poorly it was treated) comes to mind. Now, we're pretty used to the somewhat childish nature of opposing parties attacking the guys in power, but this one took the cake.
The last chance the Tories had to prevent the vote of no-confidence was their new budget plan, which was being presented the day before the deadline of the VoNC. Essentially, if this budget plan passed by the other parties, there wouldn't be a vote. So, the plan was presented... which wasn't breathtaking, but wasn't bad either. Essentially, it was modest - getting money to who really needed it, while not taking money from pretty much anyone else (or anyone who'd be screwed if they did).
From the impression I got, it wouldn't have mattered if the plan was written on construction paper with black crayon. Both the Liberals and NDP pretty much put their thumbs in their ears and went "LALALALALALA... CAN'T HEAR YOU... NON-CONFIDENCE VOTE TOMORROW!", by that I mean they shut it down entirely.
So... instead of a weak, yet modest budget plan... we get an election... which, of course, taxpayers have to pay for... again...
...and all of this culminates into Stephen Harper's Conservative party winning by majority... the same people who were in power were decided by the perople to remain in power.
So, essentially, the election went almost completely nowhere and proved what I and most of Canada already knew... this election was needless bullshit from the start.
Now, I've never liked mudslinging in elections in the past (instead of throwing shit at your opponent, how about giving the people reasons why they should vote for you?)... and this is exactly why I absolutely lost my last nerve over NDP candidate Jack Layton. I don't remember many times he spoke about what he would do for Canada, but rather how he wanted to fuck Harper and take his job. Hell, the day before the election on national TV, he was trying to rally the people with a cheer of "Together, we will take down Stephen Harper" and the like.
I don't particularily like Harper much (hell, I don't like any of these dipshits), but I really hate it when politicians base much (if not all) of their campaign time attacking their opponents. All this showed me is that Layton was more concerned about winning the big chair than the Canadian people...
...hell, if he even considered this, he would have called off the non-confidence vote beforehand. A poll taken before the budget plan was presented said that if Canada went into election, most people would have voted Conservative anyways, essentially dooming the election's chances at all.
Heck, this poll even predicted the chance of a majority election for the Tories... which is EXACTLY what happened!
Two things came out of this election... one is that Layton got the NDP promoted to official opposition instead of the Liberals (which is kind of impressive, since the NDP has always fallen far behind in the polls behind the Liberals and Conservatives). The other thing is that, because the Conservatives won by majority, the other parties are unable to do another vote of no-confidence and put us into another unecissary election (honestly, we've had 5 now in 7 years... which is well over the norm).
So yeah... this election did nothing more than rape the Canadian taxpayers in the wallet... so... does anyone else's ass hurt?
Soooooo... election day has come and passed... the politicions can stop flinging shit at each other (I'm looking at you, Layton.), ballots have been cast and, for the first time in a long time, we have a majority leader...
...the same leader we fuckin' had before this entire stupid ordeal began.
Man, I remember when it all began... the few days leading up to the non-confidence vote that started this whole election landslide. The Conservatives were in the hot seat, being crapped on by both the Liberals and New Democratic Party (NDP)... and up to this point, sure... there were some good reasons to do so... the G24 summit (and how poorly it was treated) comes to mind. Now, we're pretty used to the somewhat childish nature of opposing parties attacking the guys in power, but this one took the cake.
The last chance the Tories had to prevent the vote of no-confidence was their new budget plan, which was being presented the day before the deadline of the VoNC. Essentially, if this budget plan passed by the other parties, there wouldn't be a vote. So, the plan was presented... which wasn't breathtaking, but wasn't bad either. Essentially, it was modest - getting money to who really needed it, while not taking money from pretty much anyone else (or anyone who'd be screwed if they did).
From the impression I got, it wouldn't have mattered if the plan was written on construction paper with black crayon. Both the Liberals and NDP pretty much put their thumbs in their ears and went "LALALALALALA... CAN'T HEAR YOU... NON-CONFIDENCE VOTE TOMORROW!", by that I mean they shut it down entirely.
So... instead of a weak, yet modest budget plan... we get an election... which, of course, taxpayers have to pay for... again...
...and all of this culminates into Stephen Harper's Conservative party winning by majority... the same people who were in power were decided by the perople to remain in power.
So, essentially, the election went almost completely nowhere and proved what I and most of Canada already knew... this election was needless bullshit from the start.
Now, I've never liked mudslinging in elections in the past (instead of throwing shit at your opponent, how about giving the people reasons why they should vote for you?)... and this is exactly why I absolutely lost my last nerve over NDP candidate Jack Layton. I don't remember many times he spoke about what he would do for Canada, but rather how he wanted to fuck Harper and take his job. Hell, the day before the election on national TV, he was trying to rally the people with a cheer of "Together, we will take down Stephen Harper" and the like.
I don't particularily like Harper much (hell, I don't like any of these dipshits), but I really hate it when politicians base much (if not all) of their campaign time attacking their opponents. All this showed me is that Layton was more concerned about winning the big chair than the Canadian people...
...hell, if he even considered this, he would have called off the non-confidence vote beforehand. A poll taken before the budget plan was presented said that if Canada went into election, most people would have voted Conservative anyways, essentially dooming the election's chances at all.
Heck, this poll even predicted the chance of a majority election for the Tories... which is EXACTLY what happened!
Two things came out of this election... one is that Layton got the NDP promoted to official opposition instead of the Liberals (which is kind of impressive, since the NDP has always fallen far behind in the polls behind the Liberals and Conservatives). The other thing is that, because the Conservatives won by majority, the other parties are unable to do another vote of no-confidence and put us into another unecissary election (honestly, we've had 5 now in 7 years... which is well over the norm).
So yeah... this election did nothing more than rape the Canadian taxpayers in the wallet... so... does anyone else's ass hurt?
