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Goddam Canadians! (National Election)
Suga Foot:
Couple of surprising things about the election:
1. Scott Brison was elected even after leaving the Conservatives for the Liberals.
2. Both Paul Martin's and Jack Layton's races were very close.
3. The Bloc Party set a new record for number of seats. Maybe Quebec will have another referendum?
4. I'm surprised at how many seats the NDP got, I guess it's the people that were fed up with the Liberals but still don't like the Conservatives.
5. Both a Husband and Wife team were elected in their ridings in BC (first time ever).
6. North Surrey had an Independent winner.
1 Thing that I find interesting is that it seems Canada is starting to have a regional representative government. The Liberals are mostly in the East and Ontario, The Bloc has Quebec, and the conservatives have the west.
I was at my MP's party tonight (James Moore). I congratulated him and he thanked me for all the work I did. I was happy to see him get re-elected. There were some ladies checkin me out too ;)
Now that it's all ove,r we out here in the West can get back to being ignored and misrepresented while Toronto will get whatever it wants (and more), while forever stuggling to become a world class city. :P
Trauma-san:
We have the same problem here in Charlotte. The Mayor's always on this "become a world class city" kick. Yall are twice as large as our city, and if you're still worrying about being "world class", I guess we've got a long damn way to go.
Our Mayor is a republican, but yet he's spent billions of taxpayer dollars to fund all kinds of bullshit, and the city council has raised taxes time after time. I've paid for a Stadium for the Hornets; a Stadium for the Panthers, a Stadium for the Bobcats, A new stadium for our minor league Baseball team which they're moving downtown, an aquatic center, a new bus station, a new convention center, tons of new parks, a restored Trolley car, and the biggest thing? 6 BILLION DOLLARS projected taxes to pay for a light-rail system... that it's projected less than 1 percent of residents will ride.
I gotta admit I like some of the stuff, i.e. the new bus station, the parks, the aquatic center, etc... but some of it's got me wondering what the fuck? In the meanwhile, we have a historic theatre from the 20's downtown, that it would take 5 million dollars to renovate and restore completely to it's glory (this thing is unbelievable, one of the last of it's kind, decked out in chandeliers and silk, and ornamentation everywhere)... and the City Council won't do shit about it... but they'll spend 6 Billion dollars on a fuckin' train.
Ras Kass' Toothpick:
After looking at the results it looks like it was Ontario that fucked it up again. Even the horrible provincial government (Liberals) with a 9% approval rating didn't help take away Liberal votes. I think even those clowns will get back in in 2007.
I just can't see how people can reward a government that did what the Liberals did. Don't voters think that sends a bad message?
I could whine about this forever. Ontario voters really piss me off. :-X
eS El Duque:
--- Quote from: Ras Kass' Toothpick on June 29, 2004, 02:18:41 PM ---After looking at the results it looks like it was Ontario that fucked it up again. Even the horrible provincial government (Liberals) with a 9% approval rating didn't help take away Liberal votes. I think even those clowns will get back in in 2007.
I just can't see how people can reward a government that did what the Liberals did. Don't voters think that sends a bad message?
I could whine about this forever. Ontario voters really piss me off. :-X
--- End quote ---
That's why I love the WEST ;D
Gurmont Grewal and his wife both won (Gurmont from my region (newton) and his wife in fleetwood)..that's pretty crazy
crazy how liberals still won like 6 seats here i believe, very surprsing....andf the one independant that won was a conservatives, but they didn't pick him to run there, so he ran anywayz....might be going back to conservatives though.
Suga Foot:
Voter turn out was the lowest ever at 60%. In 2000 it was 64%. Still, I think 60% is pretty good. Isn't the US at like 30%?
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