We're having the provincial election tonight...another shot at signing away your power to the next lot of representatives for another 2 or 3 years... ;-)

So I went and did my civic duty. I voted for the NDP. They're the number 3 party here most of the time, they're nominally socialist, and I like their general attitude better than I like that of the presently ruling Liberals or the not presently ruling Conservatives.

By the way, don't necessarily believe that these party's various names tell you all you need to know about what they really stand for! ;-) The Liberals are the party that pretend to be for the common man, but are really for their rich backers in the business community. The Conservatives are the party that pretend that being for their rich backers in the business community is the very same thing as being for the common man! Heh! And the NDP are the party who would dearly love to be for the common man, but once in power they will end up either cooperating with the rich backers in the business community or dying an early and ignominious political death after which they must suffer obscurity for some time afterward... (their present position, having been in office once back in the 90s)

So I vote the underdog. Heh!

But that's not the important part. The important part is I got to vote for something else too. There's a referendum this time. You get to vote either to (1) keep our present electoral system which rewards the first guy "past the post"...resulting in elections where 42% of the vote can dictate to the other 58% for the next 2 or 3 years....

or (2) a new system based on proportional representation.

Awright! I voted for the new proportional representation system. I hope a lot of other people did too. It could help make a pretty fraudulent system of governing a bit more honest.


What's gonna happen tonight in my particular riding? That's easy. The local Conservative candidate, Garfield Dunlop, will win. People in this riding would vote the Conservatives in even if they ran a chimpanzee or a monkey for the provincial parliament. ;-) Trust me. They would. I have told Chongo about this, but he said he's not interested in politics as a career. Too bad.

Why does this riding vote Conservative? Well, it's because of the demographic. You have an almost completely white, middle-class, financially rather well off, and older population...the very people who once lived in Toronto, 40 years ago, but have since fled to the smaller rural towns and cities north of the great international megalopolis.

They vote Conservative because they think it protects their vested interests, their white-bread existence. Ha! I seriously doubt that it does, but that's what they think. When they get REALLY upset about something they will occasionally vote for the Liberals instead. For the NDP to get elected here, though, the Liberals and Conservatives would have to both be revealed as secret Satanic associations of child-abusers who have been practicing human sacrifice all these years....

I am curious how the referendum will go.