Yesterday's election results were no suprise to me. Despite who you voted for, it's hard not to agree with the fact that we've set the stage for a pseudo-dramatic Parliament (as dramatic as Canadian politics can be).
With the split 124 for the blue team to 103 for the red, there is going to be a lot more focus placed on most issues, and much more press coverage of every scrutinizing detail. It kind of reminds me of GI-Joe the Movie, where the Joe's and Cobra, while an even match through most episodes until (naturally) the Joe's prevail, this time there are new forces at play. What I mean is, the Bloq are kind of like those creepy snake-dudes in Cobra-La. Now, while they're not going to try to take over the world by launching mutant death spores from space (though, who knows what really goes on in the wilderness of northern Quebec), they're going to act as the balance of power in the new Parliament.
Even though GI-Joe beats both Cobra and their evil-er cousins in that animated film masterpiece, whoever wants to win with each issue is going to have to make deals with each other to get stuff passed. That would mean GI-Joe might have to make a deal with Cobra-La sometimes, and maybe have to let the combined snake-being force win on other occasions.
Where does that leave the NDP, you ask? Well, they're kind of like Sgt. Slaughter's band of misfits. Who knows when and where they're going to parachute in from to lay waste via a general ass-whooping. I always thought Jack Layton's mustache looked familiar.
It's going to be an exciting 18 months until the next election, that's for sure!
1 comment:
I always thought the PC were like Skeletor... She-ra and He-man spent too much time worrying about each other... splitting the vote; so now they'll have to band together to defeat him... I'll let you decide which one of the opposition party leaders is She-Ra...
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