Preamble to the Regression of Canada's Integrity

Before I begin my blog on how the election of Stephen Harper and his cronies on May 2, 2011, I need to create a preamble to what is to follow. I write this blog as a private citizen, living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - which, of course, is also the nation's capital. Here, Harper's regressive, narrow-minded, short-sighted, elitist and arrogant machinations take place that directly effect the rest of the country. On May 2, 2011 Canada's electorate, bizarrely, and with great naivete and deep blindness elected in a government - get this - that has just been ousted for being held in contempt of parliament!!! That means this party lied, withheld information from Parliament and the people - and the same people had just elected the party back in. Now, to be clear, a large number of the electorate abstained from voting, with the popular vote going to the NDP (for the first time sitting in the House of Parliament as Official Opposition) - so in effect, a minority of the electorate actually voted Harper's CONServatives into government. Sounds like a form of apartheid, doesn't it? And for those who suggest that those who abstained shouldn't be counted - that is absolutely idiotic. Abstaining - or doing nothing - is doing something. Abstentions are like a protest vote indicating that the electorate see no one to their liking - and that's a choice. I voted, but certainly for Harper. That's a disaster, as the country is very quickly (in about a month)finding out.