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WELCOME BACK!!!


It has been just over a year since the last time I have posted on this site but I am back now and will be back regularly. I'm welcoming myself back to posting on this site and welcoming the Conservative government back after increasing their minority government in yesterday's election. I will have lots to talk about regarding this election, what it means for Canada in the future, the upcoming American presidential election, and much more. Obviously, i won't be able to get to all of that today so I'm just going to focus on the big news of the day.
After a 5-week campaign we finally have a result, a Conservative minority government stronger than the one that went into the election. There have been many critics today stating that Canada wasted $300M on an election campaign and ended up with the same result. You can look at it that way or you can look at it in a more objective way. The Conservatives made gains across the entire country except for two areas: Quebec and Newfoundland. Newfoundland is not a huge loss in the grand scheme of things but the fact that the Conservatives managed only 10 seats in province of Quebec made the difference between a majority and a minority government.

CONSERVATIVES: 143 seats, 37.63% popular vote
LIBERALS: 76 seats, 26.24% popular vote
NDP: 37 seats, 18.20% popular vote
BLOC QUEBECOIS: 50 seats, 9.97% popular vote
GREEN PARTY: 0 seats, 6.80% popular vote
INDEPENDENTS: 2 seats, 0.65% popular vote

The Conservatives picked up their first seat in PEI for the first time in my lifetime with their last one being in the 1984 election under Brian Mulroney. The Conservatives have had a strong hold on the West in the past but somehow managed to improve on that owning all but two seats in Alberta and Saskatchewan. They made gains in BC and Manitoba and most significantly, in southern Ontario. They were still shut out of Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto but have picked up a few seats in Toronto's surrounding areas.

So what does this mean for the near future? Going into the election the Conservatives had 127 seats followed by the Liberals with 95. The Conservatives have had a minority government under Stephen Harper since the beginning of 2006 and have served as the longest running Conservative minority government in Canadian history. It had been a mostly successful one with the major problem being with the Liberal Senate stalling all of the bills passed in the House of Commons. With a new, stronger minority government the Conservatives should be more productive in passing legislation and getting things done. The Liberals suffered a serious blow to their support and questions are being raised about Stephane Dion's leadership. But I'll save that for another time. It will mean that while the Liberals ponder over their leadership it will allow Harper a bright short-term future for his government.
I will leave it at that for now with much more to come in the near future. The Liberals are once again experiencing leadership issues, there is the American election, and I'm sure much more to come.
- DCM

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