Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Why bother voting again?

Here is a thought for all the people who are arguing that the coalition by the Liberal, NDP and Bloc parties should be voted on (or conversely, that Harper should still be allowed to govern): why bother?

If you take the results from the last election several weeks ago, only 60% of Canadians bothered to vote. Even with the situation as it is, do people really expect the results of the last vote to significantly change? If anything I'd argue that the vote will remain pretty close to what it was.

So, parliament resumes - and it reaches the same point as it currently is at (plus or minus a few seats from each party). It is unlikely that the CPC would gain enough seats to change anything, so again an attempt to form a coalition would occur. All we would've done in this case is wasted another $350 million, and another four to six weeks that could've been used to forumlate plans to manuever the country out financial troubles.

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