Well the election is over and I am sad to say that the Progressive Conservatives under Steven Harper now have their majority. This proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that mud slinging, name calling, innuendo, misrepresentation, shirt and sports jacket combination, Vancouver 2010 clothing, limiting reporters to 4 questions a day, muzzling all opposition, outspending your rivals by a healthy margin, getting photographed playing ball hockey and cricket, shrugging off all scandals, barring non-supporters from meetings, feeding Conservative held or Conservative targeted ridings millions and millions of dollars for 'projects', doing zero for the environment, doing lots and lots for the oil industry and corporate Canada, promising to establish an office for religious freedoms, handing out treats such as $500 tax credits worth $75 to people who often don't need it, lowering revenues while increasing spending and promising to balance the budget, totally disregarding and manipulating the democratic process, always saying "Canadians want this" "Canadians don't want that" and "made in Canadian solution", and achieving the largest annual deficit ever under the banner of prudent fiscal management can indeed win you an election.
Without a seat and after his party took and old fashioned beating, Michael Ignatieff resigned today depriving Canada of an intelligent and able politician in the house. However, according to Jack Layton, he was only their 30% of the time anyway, so perhaps he will not be missed. I did like a couple of his quotes at his announcement.
"People ask whether the Liberal Party has a future. I think the surest guarantee of the future for the Liberal Party of Canada is four years of Conservative government and four years of NDP opposition," Ignatieff said.
He said he found it difficult to recover from the negative advertising the Conservatives rolled out against him prior to the election campaign.
"Of course they attacked me, of course they vilified me," Ignatieff said. "Of course they engaged in an absolutely unscrupulous campaign of personal attack. But look, the only thing Canadians like less than a loser is a sore loser, and I go out of politics with my head held high." At a boy.
Congratulations to Jack Layton and the NDP. Carpe diem Jack seize the day.
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