Brad Wall, what the fuck are you high on?!!

I came across this article today. It is an article about Premier Brad Wall and his concerns about certain comments that Liberal Party leader, Michael Ignatieff stated.

From the article:

"I am deeply troubled by Mr. Ignatieff’s assertion that he may choose to overturn the democratic result of the federal election," Wall said in the statement.

This is what he was concerned about:

"If the Governor General wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a government, then we try to form a government," Ignatieff told Mansbridge.

And his response:

"The notion that Mr. Ignatieff may choose to not recognize the democratic result of the election and may try to seize power with the support of the other parties, including a party dedicated to the breakup of Canada, is offensive to me and I believe, to most fair-minded Canadians," Wall said.

Premier Brad Wall claims that if the Governor General decides to call upon the opposition leaders to govern, which is well within his/her right if the government fails to obtain the confidence of the house, that he would not be respecting the democratic process of the country...

Canada does not have proportional representation. A riding is won on a first past the post system. If we had proportional representation, then his statement might actually make sense.

In the last election, The Harper government got about 37% of the popular vote... That means that 100 - 37% of the people didn't vote for Harper. My math tells me 63% of the people didn't vote for Harper... So... If the opposition parties were given the opportunity to govern, the combination of seats would actually represent 63% of the country... Which to me seems more democratic than 37%.

Of course, some will say that when the Liberals had a majority government, this was the case as well. And I agree with that... Even when they had a majority, they probably weren't the most representative. However, I do believe that the Liberals respected our democracy just a tad better than the Harper Conservatives. After all, they were not charged with contempt. Harper is the first PM and his government was the first to be charged with contempt.

On another note, I read in the Metro newspaper yesterday a debate, more like a forum, where readers posed questions that were answered by all the leaders. (It was nice of Metro to include Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May) Harper, in one of his answers, blamed the opposition parties for launching this election because they didn't support the budget and that the government fell on a budget vote.

No... The government fell on a non-confidence vote because it has been found of contempt for the first time in Canadian history.

There are people dying in many other countries in the world because they want change, because they want the chance of voting where their ballots actually count. Yet in this country, we have Canadians blindly giving their support to a government that has been found in contempt!

In most other situations, when someone has been found in contempt, they lose their jobs!