Election dreams

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Icicles on Saturday afternoon


I woke in vague horror. Perhaps I had dreamt how Canada will appear under prime minister Stephen Harper and the Canadian Alliance party. But more likely I had been searching dim, unfamiliar rooms for my voter information card. What a ridiculous time of year to run an election campaign! Don't they understand the holidays leave people's lives in disarray? Perhaps that's why the opposition called a non-confidence vote, knowing our thoughts would be too scattered to think clearly. I've been sleeping since the election call. The campaign is a forgotten dream.

Tomorrow we'll wake to a nightmare government run by conservatives who would undo recent advances on behalf of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Fortunately they'll achieve another minority. The New Democrats will win a bigger chunk of the opposition, and none of the opposing parties want same-sex marriage overturned. We'll see how much damage an inexperienced party and leader can do with limited power. I foresee a dreary few months before the next inevitable poll.

I found my information card in a junk heap, and cast my vote before 10. Considering the Liberals will lose and Guelph-Wellington MP Brenda Chamberlain is out of touch anyway, I moved left.