Canadian Elections

Well, our federal government had an election yesterday. The Conservatives took power for the first time in a decade and a half, winning a minority government (which will probably only last a year or so).

A lot of people have said that it will be good to have the Conservatives in power to "clean up government," after a series of Liberal scandals. What younger people seem to fail to realize, and older people forget, is that the Conservatives had an equally impressive string of scandals in the 1980's. So basically, Canadians didn't have a lot of choice in the election, to sum things up.

I did vote this time, for the first time in years. However, I couldn't decide who I was going to vote for until I reached the voting hall. I didn't "flip a coin" to decide, but I certainly didn't have a lot of faith in the party that I voted for. I ended up picking who I thought was the best local candidate, rather than considering partisan issues.

I'm not a fan of politics. Most people who would probably be good at running this country wouldn't want to do the job.