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Canada will survive… awesome! place at the head of the opposition benches. The politicians may have been dissatisfied with the hard work and compromise that minority governing requires. But who cares what the politicians think? Bob Groeneveld It’s been working just fine, and I predict that it editor@langleyadvance.com will continue to work just fine. Don’t expect the opposition parties to gang up on Harper and take over the reins of govAs I’m sitting here writing this, there are not ernment by forming a majority coalition. yet any election results. There would be nothing wrong with that… We got special permission from the press to but what are the chances that Layton will get hold our front page long past our usual deadthat level of support from Ignatieff or Gilles line, to get you the latest local – and national Duceppe? Would you happily lend your sup– election results possible, as quickly as posport to the guy who just put the boots to you? sible. Nope. Not likely. And when that extended deadline finally hit Less likely, but definitely a possibility, us, we kept plugging away, using our website Layton came out of last night with the most at www.langleyadvance.com to keep writing seats, and a shot at being the guy who gets to election updates, to keep our readers and our form a minority government. community fully informed about what’s comMaybe he will be prime minising out of the ballot boxes here, ter for a while, or maybe (more and across Canada. Whether they do or likely) the right wing parties But alas, right now I’m writing will form one of those coalitions blind. don’t, the country they claim to despise – to keep The generous folks at the press won’t be destroyed. the socialists from destroying wouldn’t extend their magnanimCanada will survive. Canada, of course. ity to my delightful and thoughtBut whether they do or don’t, ful expressions of wisdom. the country won’t be destroyed. The day after the election, I’m Canada will survive. still stuck with yesterday’s predictions. Maybe Harper came through last night with So I will stick only to the predictions that I a majority government. He’ll do his ultra-rightcan conjure with reasonable certainty. wing stuff, a lot of people will probably get First, I’ll predict that, whatever the outcome upset with him, maybe the voters will move a of yesterday’s general federal election, the little closer to the centre of the political specsun rose today and will rise again tomorrow trum next time, and… Canada will survive. – maybe behind clouds, but it will rise. An There’s a remote possibility that it was asteroid strike could blow that prediction to Layton who finished the night with a majority smithereens, but ones that big only hit the earth about every 500,000 years, and scientists of seats – in which case he’ll do his ultra-leftwing stuff, a lot of people will probably get have their eye on one that could be a danger upset with him, maybe the voters will move a to us in about 800 years… so I’m not losing little closer to the centre of the political specsleep over it until at least next week. trum next time, and… Canada will survive. Next, I’ll predict that, however the election And my final prediction – the one of which ended, Canada, like the sunshine, will survive. I am more certain than any other: we got the As I’m writing this, the most likely end government we deserved. result seems to be another couple of years of That’s democracy, folks, and the beauty of it what we’ve had for the last couple of years: often leaves me in awe. a reasonably successful minority government Visit Bob Groeneveld’s blog, Editor’s Notes, at http://tiny.cc/v7b94 headed by Stephen Harper… except Jack at www.langleyadvance.com Layton will probably take Michael Ignatieff’s
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