McHugh-Russell Next time!
Well folks I was obviously very disappointed with the election results last night, but I think that Toronto did an excellent job sending the message to the Conservatives that we're not buying the BS they are selling.
I heard a bit of Harper's speech and he said that"effective immediately" the GST would be dropped one percent and that the other one percent will be coming, I haven't noticed that anything I've bought today was any cheaper, this could be for one of 2 reasons 1) one percent dosen't make a freaking difference or 2) Because even though he said he was doing it I don't actually think that retailers have put it into practice, mind you all I've bought today was a soup and a couple of coffees.
No matter what, I'm just thankful that it's a conservative minority, which will have an affect on the house voting when it comes time for the policies that this narrow minded administration has up it's sleeve.
Especially since Paul Martin was one of the longest survivors of a minority government! Let's get Harper out by Canada Day, I know it's never going to happen, the Liberals aren't ready for another election yet, they have to wait until Harper makes a big Faux-Pas.
I emailed my candidate this morning to personally thank him for running in my riding.
Etobicoke-Lakeshore was a riding without options lastdoesn't t so it doesn't surprise me that many of the residents kept with what was familiar even if that does mean electing a man who has not lived in this country in my lifetime and has no plans to live in the riding that he represents.
In case anyone is interested the breakdown for the Etobicoke-Lakeshore riding was as follows: a total of 56,157 votes were cast which may seem like a lot but according to my research that means that 23,007 eligible voters didn't bother.
According to the Elections Canada Website the riding profile is:
'The electoral district of Etobicoke--Lakeshore (Ontario) has a population of 113,914 with 79,164 registered voters and 211 polling divisions'
The count:
Liberal-24,641
Conservative-19,651
NDP- 8,710
Green-2,830
Communist-188
Marxist Leninist-137
I'm not going to dwell on it though because maybe Harper will redeem himself, with a Kim Campbell length term. Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Well folks I was obviously very disappointed with the election results last night, but I think that Toronto did an excellent job sending the message to the Conservatives that we're not buying the BS they are selling.
I heard a bit of Harper's speech and he said that"effective immediately" the GST would be dropped one percent and that the other one percent will be coming, I haven't noticed that anything I've bought today was any cheaper, this could be for one of 2 reasons 1) one percent dosen't make a freaking difference or 2) Because even though he said he was doing it I don't actually think that retailers have put it into practice, mind you all I've bought today was a soup and a couple of coffees.
No matter what, I'm just thankful that it's a conservative minority, which will have an affect on the house voting when it comes time for the policies that this narrow minded administration has up it's sleeve.
Especially since Paul Martin was one of the longest survivors of a minority government! Let's get Harper out by Canada Day, I know it's never going to happen, the Liberals aren't ready for another election yet, they have to wait until Harper makes a big Faux-Pas.
I emailed my candidate this morning to personally thank him for running in my riding.
Etobicoke-Lakeshore was a riding without options lastdoesn't t so it doesn't surprise me that many of the residents kept with what was familiar even if that does mean electing a man who has not lived in this country in my lifetime and has no plans to live in the riding that he represents.
In case anyone is interested the breakdown for the Etobicoke-Lakeshore riding was as follows: a total of 56,157 votes were cast which may seem like a lot but according to my research that means that 23,007 eligible voters didn't bother.
According to the Elections Canada Website the riding profile is:
'The electoral district of Etobicoke--Lakeshore (Ontario) has a population of 113,914 with 79,164 registered voters and 211 polling divisions'
The count:
Liberal-24,641
Conservative-19,651
NDP- 8,710
Green-2,830
Communist-188
Marxist Leninist-137
I'm not going to dwell on it though because maybe Harper will redeem himself, with a Kim Campbell length term. Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
posted by Poppy @ 12:39 PM
1 Comments:
At 1:25 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Good blog!
I'm joining you in wishing he's out by Canada Day. What a celebration that would be.
I say that you and I should run.
Do you think anyone would vote for us?
-Sasha
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