Good News
By Mitch Berg
Conservatism – of sorts – wins in Canada, increasing its lead over the melange of other parties:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday he will reach out to all parties during the global financial meltdown after his Conservative Party won in national elections but fell short of a parliamentary majority.
Harper had called Tuesday’s elections early in hopes of getting his party a majority, and in doing so he became the first major world leader to face voters since the financial crisis…Harper sought to put a good face on the results Wednesday, pointing to an increased number of seats and pledging cooperation.
Canada’s parliamentary system is a little more byzantine than ours – but at the end of the day, votes count – and it was a good day, albeit not a slam-dunk, for Conservatives:
With nearly all the returns in, Canada’s election agency reported on its Web site that the Conservatives had won or was leading in races for 143 of Parliament’s 308 seats, an improvement over the 127 seats the party had in the previous Parliament.
The Conservative Party needed to win 155 seats to govern on its own.
Maybe that’s why we’ve had fewer celebs promising to move to Canada if Mac and Sarah win; their government may actually develop more common sense than ours.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
So maybe you kooks will be heading north after November. Not a lot of difference in the climate. Heck, maybe Sarah Palin’s independence dream will bear fruit and you can move to the independent Republic of Alaska.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
DOn’t get too excited. The fact that the 3 other “liberal” parties are splitting votes is what gives Harper’s side their victory. Oh, and the actual Liberal Party is having an internal meltdown with bad leadership.
I wouldn’t expect this to last too long.