We have had endless minority governments for the past 18 years which of course led to expensive and useless elections every 2 to 3 tears. The law has changed where you can only have an election every four years from now on.(same as the US)
The major problem in Canada was that there were too many fairly major parties - Conservatives, Liberals, New Democratic Party (NDP) ...similar to your Labour Party and the Parti Quebecois, a federal party that was determnied to separate Quebec French Canada from English Canada basically. So with this dilemna a majority could never be achieved...until...
Last May 2, a majority was finally attained by the Conservatives led by Stephen Harper (can't be all bad he has my name !!!lol). Also he is a member of an amateur music group, The Herring Bones, and plays piano. Of course the media jumped on this and he has played piano and sung to A Little Help From My Friends and Imagine...for this I like him. Silly reason but hey why not !..The problem is that I don't like his politics. Conservatives are more for big corporation tax breaks and the upper class. But this time, similar to the Obama break through, Canadians , the nice meek people who apologise for everything, said that's it we're fed up we're voting for Conservatives and NDP. Bye bye old Liberals and separtists. French Canada turned on the separators and voted NDP !!!!.. a perennial third place party.
The election saw the NDP (socialist democrats) finish second as the official opposition virtually wiping out the Liberals and the separtist party !!!!
How all this dramatic change of Canada's political landscape will play out..we'll see in the next four years !!
I will be featuring pretty much mostly Canadian musicians in the next little while. Canada Day is this Friday (July 1st). I am going 300 miles away to New Brunswick for a mini reunion of sorts from Jul 1 - July 4 so I may be away from MD for a few days...or I may find time to respond and take part away from home if I'm awake and everybody's snoring .....lol.
A think a new generation has spoken !
The major problem in Canada was that there were too many fairly major parties - Conservatives, Liberals, New Democratic Party (NDP) ...similar to your Labour Party and the Parti Quebecois, a federal party that was determnied to separate Quebec French Canada from English Canada basically. So with this dilemna a majority could never be achieved...until...
Last May 2, a majority was finally attained by the Conservatives led by Stephen Harper (can't be all bad he has my name !!!lol). Also he is a member of an amateur music group, The Herring Bones, and plays piano. Of course the media jumped on this and he has played piano and sung to A Little Help From My Friends and Imagine...for this I like him. Silly reason but hey why not !..The problem is that I don't like his politics. Conservatives are more for big corporation tax breaks and the upper class. But this time, similar to the Obama break through, Canadians , the nice meek people who apologise for everything, said that's it we're fed up we're voting for Conservatives and NDP. Bye bye old Liberals and separtists. French Canada turned on the separators and voted NDP !!!!.. a perennial third place party.
The election saw the NDP (socialist democrats) finish second as the official opposition virtually wiping out the Liberals and the separtist party !!!!
How all this dramatic change of Canada's political landscape will play out..we'll see in the next four years !!
I will be featuring pretty much mostly Canadian musicians in the next little while. Canada Day is this Friday (July 1st). I am going 300 miles away to New Brunswick for a mini reunion of sorts from Jul 1 - July 4 so I may be away from MD for a few days...or I may find time to respond and take part away from home if I'm awake and everybody's snoring .....lol.
A think a new generation has spoken !
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