[Magdalen] Canada's election

[Molly Wolf]

The Libs have gone from 36 seats to 186 -- quite a comfortable majority.

This is a sweep of historic proportions, the biggest upset in Canadian history.  Trudeau fils has actually outdone Trudeau pere in the Trudeaumania election of '68. 

I'm sorry for the NDP, which paid a high price for strategic voting -- but I'm applauding the rejection of neo-conservatism and xenophobia, and I'm hoping the Tories turn themselves back into a party I can respect.  They have no obvious heir-in-waiting, as Steverino chopped potential competitors off at the knees (he is not a Nice Person at all).

May we be a modest example to our large friend to the south.

Susan Hutchinson, get down off that table THIS MINUTE!!!

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Oct 19, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, we have that participation and peaceful transfer AND we git 'er done in a reasonable time frame.  And I like to think our better side has triumphed tonight and we have been freed from the Prince of Darkness.
> 
> I haven't checked, but the Blue Jays may have stayed alive in the baseball game tonight.  As a courtesy, the American baseball powers-that-be should have moved this game to another day or night.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
>> On 10/19/2015 10:35 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> I'm tempted to be very envious of Canada for getting its election over
>> with, and I'm tempted to be depressed at what we still face here in
>> the USA for ANOTHER YEAR YET, but I'm forgetting the good points of
>> our system that aim for participation by the people (however
>> engineered it may be from vested interests) and a peaceful transfer of
>> power.
>> 
>> Still, wish our primaries were next month and the general election in,
>> say, February.
>