Politics.

October 14, 2008 8:14 pm

***If you want to know who I voted for, I voted for the grown-ups (or, atleast the party that acts the most like grown-ups).

I used to own politicalnews.ca but ironically, it’s just expiring about now.

I’m heading off to bed soon to get a good night’s sleep, but the election results I’m looking at (courtesy The Globe and Mail) has:

The Progressive Conservative Reformists at 144 seats, The Libs at 75, the Block at 50, NDP at 36 and Indies at 3

The Green Party got shut out.

Martha Hall Findlay (Lib) won my riding.

All in all, I guess I’m pretty happy, a nice, minority government, though apparently strengthened over the last Conservative-led minority.

I dislike politics. But unfortunately in this day and age you have to vote and pay attention because they’ll steal all your money and give it away to their friends if you don’t.

I voted today, and it made me feel kind of dirty.

Hopefully they’ll last four years and get some good stuff done. I’d like to see that Arts funding cut, but Can-con requirements raised, for one thing.

But that’s another story.

2 Responses to “Politics.”

Erin wrote a comment on October 15, 2008

I vote to pretend I’m making a difference, but really, it doesn’t seem to matter who’s in power; they do some good things, and they do some bad things.

Bah politics! =p

Just wondering, by Arts funding, do you mean that thing where the government is supposed to support/fund the arts/films/&c. no matter what? Or is there some other Arts funding, like for galleries or schools or something?

admin wrote a comment on October 15, 2008

There was a debate about funding that largely went to live performing arts.

I’m not against the arts at all, mind you – but I’m wondering if subsidizing people is a good idea. After all, the funding gets allocated by boards of people that might have agendas that aren’t reflected by the community.

I don’t know too much, here’s some links (I just picked them by topic, not quality or opinion – most will probably be pro-arts funding).

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=4b2c1c6c-4e4e-4067-ae94-67e7643e6dd6
http://forums.castanet.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15276
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/479754
http://communities.canada.com/vannet/blogs/inthespotlight/archive/2008/10/03/arts-funding-cuts-hit-close-to-home.aspx
http://www.greenparty.ca/en/node/6582

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