In bed with poutine-loving separatists!

Yulzopolis — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:26:40 +0000

Interesting post, Sneaky. Of course, the whole thing strikes me as being mostly party hackery to convince people that the new alliance has the right to form the government. I would agree that they do, but bitching about how the system distorts the seats allocated versus the votes won is kind of silly. Everyone knows the rules going into it (sorry greens…7% but none of your local candidates actually win…no seats!).

The real chaos (according to this Slate article) seems to be around when/if the new alliance will get to vote to form a new government. The Governor General, appointed by the Queen, has suspended the parliament at the request of the prime minister, which has postponed the vote and the formation of the new government.

and you thought Bush v. Gore was bad! At least the supreme court justices were appointed by an elected president and approved by the Senate. DOWN WITH THE QUEEN!!!!

And with all this, it is weird to see Canadians hurling insults, accusing each other of treason, sedition, and being in bed with separatists…not quite as heated as America’s culture wars (Obama is the Antichrist and isn’t even a citizen!), but I suppose everything Canadians do is milder and more civilized than in America, even their constitutional crises.

Oh. Canada.

sneaky — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:46:09 +0000

Here is an interesting post that a friend linked on facebook about the current happenings in Canadian politics. I’m sure all of you already know about coalition government and no confidence votes, etc. But I didn’t know some of the details about all the Canadian political parties and divvying up the seats in parliament.

Flock of Cats » Canada

In bed with poutine-loving separatists!

Oh. Canada.