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8 Oct 2004 @ 05:25 by ov : Official Other Hand
We haven't even made it through the first week and the pretentious ego battles have started already. Stephen Harper is the Canadian version of the extreme neo-conservative and would love to bring this government down and have another election but he doesn't want to make it look like he is responsible because that would blow up in his face. The Bloc is the Quebec independence issue which is one of those ancient Canadian conflicts that have taught us more than a little bit about how to deal with conflict. Chuck Cadmen is the one independent, and he is from Vancouver, and if everybody votes according to party they balance out and Chuck gets to make the deciding vote (this wasn't by design, it just worked out that way.)
Meanwhile the general population sighs in frustration and yells at the kids in parliament to behave and deep down we know it won't make much difference but as long as we can avoid the fire department or the emergency room of the hospital we will make it through another day and sooner or later they will grow up. Can't give up hope on that.
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