Ghost of a flea

No mandate

(To begin with an aside: I now think I know why YouTube/Google has been running so slowly for 48 hours; they were introducing these retarded search bars to the top of their embedded video function. Congratulations Google, you have pushed my lazy butt one step further toward your competitors.)

(Update: The feature is now a default but can be disabled by adding "&showsearch=0" to the URL. I will leave the code as is on the first video below for demonstration purposes. It does not look so bad in the first video as the image has already been letterboxed but looks like hell on a normal television aspect ratio.)

Here is an idea: Excepting the Cree and the Mohawk who are Canadian, Canada should force Quebec out of confederation. They can take their corrupt politics, their sodding metric system and above all their permanent whining with them. Good riddance.

For non-Canadians, the background in detail. Steve Paikan is a sensible fellow and can guide you in the boring intricacy of our ways.

Tallying voter percentages vs seats is a nonsense, btw. Otherwise, the Green Party should have a place in the coalition and two seats in cabinet and the Bloc should be given the External Affairs portfolio (what other cabinet position could suit their supposed ideology?). If we are to accept the legitimacy of a Prime Minister who has already been rejected by his own party and the prospect of our next Prime Minister to be elected by the Liberal Party without having to face the polls for years to come - such is the Parliamentary system - then we cannot justify said coalition by attacking the first past the post system that got them into Parliament in the first place.

Unless, that is, said coalition were taking power in order to replace said system with proportional representation or some such. But as they are planning to take power for the sake of "economic stimulation" (with release) they can shut the hell up if they do not like the numbers.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 4, 2008 05:27 AM