The never-ending story
Wednesday, 15 October 2008 | 15:27
10% of the vote gets 50 seats;
yet 18.2% of the vote gets 37 seats;
and the party that received 37% of the popular vote wins 46% of the available seats.
Yet there are still those who fail to see a problem with our first-past-the-post system.
$300 million was just spent on a federal election, called by the governing Conservative party in contravention of its own law, passed only last year, calling for fixed election dates.
The Conservatives wanted a majority, and failed; the Liberals wanted to rebuild their party, but instead lost 25% of their seats; the NDP wanted to match or exceed their highest seat count ever, and failed to do so; the Greens just wanted to elect even one MP, and didn’t. The only real winner of this campaign is the Bloc Québécois, a Quebec-only party whose sole purpose is to split up the country.
What a fabulous result to an utterly pointless campaign!
Jaded? Who, me? Not a chance. I may be disappointed in our system (and last night’s results), but elections for me are like Christmas morning. Truth be told, I’m happy as a kid in a candy store – as is every other Canadian political junkie this morning. 
Quoi ???
Il y aurait eu des élections au Canada ? Mais pourquoi ne nous dit-on rien ?
Quoi qu’il en soit, moi je suis pour les femmes au pouvoir, et je verrais bien notre Cynique Reine du Canada !
MDR Coyote ! Les femmes au pouvoir, c’est le dangé assuré, comme les femmes au volant d’ailleur lol.
Ce soir M / PSG, de la bombe on va se ré-ga-ler.
Bon match et bon sandwich à la mergez au vrais amateurs!
A bientot les zouzous