I’m sure most of you who read this blog have some friends and/or relatives who live in Canada, and they all get to vote tomorrow in the Federal Election. What a choice they have, eh.
My doctor holds multiple citizenships besides American. He was born in the UK and raised in Canada, and he has multiple ethnic ties to other European countries as well. He’s been here in Arizona since the early 1990s because he knew he didn’t want to work for the Canadian government. I am actually able to shoot some breeze with him, and I think he’s genuinely amazed that I know something about Canadian politics, so I don’t think he’d mind if I shared his prediction about tomorrow, with which I mostly agree, eh.
He believes that the most likely outcome of tomorrow’s election will be another minority government, but this time, it would be led by the Conservatives, with backing from (of all groups) the Bloc Québécois. To me, that seems an unholy alliance, because the BQ stands for Québéc seperatism. Although Tory leader Stephen Harper has pledged to give greater respect to the provinces, he’ll have to cut some deals with the Bloc, because it is inevitable that they will try to hold another referendum to break away from Canada. If it should ever succeed, it would mean the end of Canada as we know it, eh.
And one day out, although there has been considerable blogging regarding recent Liberal Party scandals, most notably over at Captain’s Quarters, and a lot of Canadian bloggers are expressing their utter contempt for the 12 years the Liberals have been in power, we still don’t know the full extent of the dissatisfaction the Canadian Electorate holds. We’ll all find out tomorrow evening which Canada they will choose, eh.