Here, let the Winchester's sum up my feelings for me:
A sad day for Canada. I'm extremely disappointed in a lot of my countrymen...also our entire electoral process, which really needs to be fixed. Sadly, it's not going to be fixed by the party that most benefits from it being broken.
Anyway...here's to another four years of the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer and our country being run by corrupt jackasses.
Oh, and a fond fare-the-well to women's rights, gay rights, and arts and culture funding...ETA: a sad goodbye also to the environment, net neutrality, and fair copyright laws.
A sad day for Canada. I'm extremely disappointed in a lot of my countrymen...also our entire electoral process, which really needs to be fixed. Sadly, it's not going to be fixed by the party that most benefits from it being broken.
Anyway...here's to another four years of the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer and our country being run by corrupt jackasses.
Oh, and a fond fare-the-well to women's rights, gay rights, and arts and culture funding...ETA: a sad goodbye also to the environment, net neutrality, and fair copyright laws.
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Cas in not amused.
(and oh god, now I'm scared - do you think he'd try again to overturn same-sex marriage? *cracks knuckles* He better not. And ugh, practically all the arts funding is already gone... and we can say goodbye to the rest. ;_; Coming as I do from a family largely in the arts, that's scary.)
BOTH of my ridings are blue again. Woe. Well, they have been for the past 2 years, but... sigh.
And arg...this is just horrible on so many levels. I'd like to think that they'd have a revolt on their hands if they tries to overturn same-sex marriage - but then, I thought there'd be no way Canada would elect someone who was FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF PARLIAMENT!
*infinite sadfaces today*
Sorry about your ridings too :( That super sucks.
Other bad things: terrible copyright and internet freedom legislation, and a complete lack of any environmental protection & action on climate change.
And AAAHH! THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE INTERNET! I forgot about them! THEY ARE TWO OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS and they are going to be RUINED FOREVER! This is horrible - an absolutely horrible day in Canadian history.
Go Québec for finally getting your heads out of your asses and voting for a legitimate federal alternative!
I'm still gutted about the country as a whole, but yeah, Quebec totally kicked ass tonight. Congrats!
Ontario sucks :(
What's broken is our system of voting - it really guts me to think that when it was put to a vote last time, Canada was either uneducated on why it was better (or just shooting themselves in the foot) and voted the reform down. If we had that system in place, this wouldn't have happened.
Of course, the other problem is that the Conservatives have successfully convinced the media that "Coalition" is a bad thing. If the public hadn't been duped and had supported the idea of a Coalition, this wouldn't have happened and we'd actually have a government that represented us made up of Liberals and NDP. Something that's not possible anymore under a Conservative Majority.
I kind of feel like staging a massive revolt, quite frankly, but I'm well aware that my countrymen are far too apathetic for such things.
Seriously horribly day for Canada over all. I think it'll be up to the general populace to protest a lot of the legislation that's going to come out of this - but I worry that Canadians have become too apathetic (or too trusting) when it comes to the government.
I really hope it's only 4 years and that they don't f*ck up the country even more than they already have...or at least, they don't f*ck it up as much as they COULD.
I'm really sorry for this outcome, especially if it means all what you said in your post. And I like your idea of starting a revolution: why not? Why say "man, the other's won't do it, so we won't win and therefore, why even start".
Because that's exactly the reason why so many people didn't vote: "it won't make a difference". And that's wrong. It does make a difference (even though I really have no clue about your voting-system, I assume that if more people make their crosses, there would've been a different outcome), so if you choose to start the Great Canadian Revolution, fighting for peace, arts and the right to marry who you love, I'll be sitting over here and wave a flag - and I'll damn well support you! (I might send cookies. I'm good at smuggling cookies!)
I just checked. We had a the lowest voting-participation in 2009 since 1949, but it was still 70% - *wipes sweat away* - I feared worse, actually. Still, I think it's really sad that so many people who HAVE the right to give some input into their country's politics refuse to do so, when all over the world other people fight to even are allowed to vote freely. It's not that we have to fear to get blown away! (well, not that much, anyway)
So, my best wishes to you and your Revolution. And all the best to you, let's hope your new "boss" isn't allowed to do too much damage...
Thankfully, it's not like he can take away our right to vote in the next 4 years (I'd like to believe people wouldn't remain apathetic if he did that), so hopefully in four years time the other political parties will be strong enough to get into power and they can fix things.
I was really disappointed by the recent British referendum too, because they could have led the way with a better, more democratic, voting system, and they chose not to. Sigh...
Anyway, yeah, congrats on your 70% voting turnout! I hope it remains there or higher as the years go on. :)