Daily Archives: 3 December, 2008

Is the sky falling?

My mailbox is overflowing with more political mail in these past few days than during the entire election.
There seems to be much panic that a Canadian coalition government is possible.

As a Canadian voter it is important for me to put things in perspective. Maybe take a deep breath and just see what we are not noticing.

The first thing is that Canadians rejected ALL Parties as their choice for a majority government. Now, this isn’t good or bad but the way the results came out.
Next, the idea of Parties getting together to form coalitions is a topic of common interest after any minority government is elected. Always has been and probably always will be. The sky isn’t falling, okay?
It’s just uncommon and we like the status quo ways……things are supposed to go a certain way or we get very upset!

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