padib said:
Yeah, I was really just having fun there. To be honest with you, there isn't much going on in Canada lately. The biggest and most interesting news here is that we had a national election only a few months ago, where one of the minor opposition parties (the NDP) which was 3rd/4th runner up for years in the electoral race, became the official opposition after absorbing 58 of 75 seats in the province of Quebec (where I was raised) and crushing the usual reigning party of the province, the Bloc Québécois. After this enormous victory, the leader Jack Layton tragically died of Cancer, leaving many very sad of his death, especially after showing much interest to the people of Quebec who had suddenly grown fond of him. Other than that, though the Conservative government is majority here, most Canadians are liberal or central. Reason why the liberal party is not elected here is due to a history of corruption and bad politics in their last two mandates. Thankfully that's over and the Liberal party is undergoing rebirth. It's a promising future for politics in Canada all things said. Of course, due to our political positioning (Left to central) most of us are pro-Obama. |
I am glad not all Canadians are as pretentious as HSql. You know it is interesting that I never hear anything about Canadian politics, yet so many of the forum goers that post in the political threads seem to hear a lot about the US. I always say I am going to move to Canada next time the right wins the presidency because Canada is definantly percieved as more libral.
