Just great...

[przed]

The Bad News:
The Conservatives will be forming the next federal government in Canada.

The Good News:
It will be a minority government, and a weak minority at that. And with them in power, this time the left-leaning Bloc Quebecois will be unlikely to support them and their whack-job socially conservative agenda.

The Best Outcome:
Harper is unable to rein in the right-wing, Christian nutjobs who make up a large number of his M.P.s (the ones who oppose gay marriage and abortion, the rights of women and minorities), then the Liberals, NDP and Bloc take them down on the first piece of loony legislation they table. A girl can dream, can't she?

I won't be moving to New Zealand quite yet, but I'll definitely be watching how this all develops.

Comments

[mrlnpndrgn]

Yeah, I'm hoping the Bloc will do the job and rid us of the nutcases as soon as possible.
Not that I want another electoral campain, but still...

[blktauna.livejournal.com]

You think you have whackjobs?

How do you think _I_ feel?!?!?!?

[stormheller.livejournal.com]

At least the Liberal got in in my riding. Not that that helps all that much.
~ g.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Damn. and I was so hoping to hide in your attic.

[obelix]

With the number of seats he has, he can't do much of anything and with the gag order off of his right wing MPs we only have to wait for the fur to fly. If he manages to even push through his campaign upon budget it will be a miracle unless he manages to form a coalition of some sort with the Bloc and that's not very likely.

The Conservatives may have won but actually being able to govern with that low a minority is impossible.

See you at the polls in October ;-)

It won't last forever, whew!

[canadiansuzanne.livejournal.com]

I was bummed about Harper, but relieved he only got a minority.

My older son did a Lego movie parody of the election campaign for school. Harper was "Darth Harper". Need I say more?