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June 29, 2004

results are in!

I stayed up all night, cross-legged on the floor, nose pressed against the television, switching channels feverishly with my heart pounding in my chest, as the Federal Elections results unfold.

Well, not really. But if you are curious to know - the Liberals won again, despite scandals and dirty laundry. Paul Martin with a little mustache of sweat, pledge to “do more and better from now on”, as doves trapped inside balloons were released. Elsewhere, no big surprises either – West Canada votes Conservative, a majority of Quebecers are separatists, and the New Democrats gets about 10% - 15%, mostly disgruntled voters who are pissed off at Liberals or Conservatives. The spokemodel for the Christian Heritage Party provides comic relief across the campaign, while the Green Party, Marijuana Party, Communist and Marxist-Leninist parties gathers alltogether about 5% of votes. (There are reasons to rejoice for the Green Party, and of this I am especially happy.)

For the first time in years, we have a minority government. This isn’t surprising, either. As new Montrealer Maciej Ceglowski pointed out,

It seems that the ruling Liberals (I love saying that) have antagonized the country by mixing corruption with incompetence, which is a terrible mistake. Voters like their corruption clever and diabolical, and they like their incompetence well-intentioned and honest.

So, that is that. Election fever has dropped down, nothing much has changed on the political landscape nor any new drastic turns may be envisioned before forever, all in all it’s always quite tame and careful and unexciting and bless, oh bless be it.

Posted by nathalie at June 29, 2004 12:26 PM