Discussion of All Things Political

I mean, also, Harper does have a mandate now. That's the way it works here. It irritates me because I keep wanting to correct his math, but the way our electoral system works isn't by the overall percentage of votes but where those votes were. 52% of the people in my riding voted for the NDP candidate. I think that's because Megan Leslie is a good MP, as was Alexa McDonough before her. But the four NDP candidates that were elected in Quebec that didn't actually run? That's a vote for the party itself. Or maybe a vote against the Bloq. (The four candidates: three are undergraduate students at Mcgill, two of whom were actually campaigning for another NDP person in a different riding, the other was on a family trip out of the country during part of the campaign and reported doesn't speak French very well.)