The calm

It’s been a while…but exams are starting soon. Luckily I have my exams spaced out with about 4 days between each. I’ve also just discussed an amazing web page idea with Rob Bruce (a good friend of mine). Kyle (Pouchie) and I are thinking about setting up a postcard page at http://pouchie.cx and it seems that things will work out because i’ll be buying a Digital Camera soon.

In other news type things…it’s been one whole week since the Canadian election. Since I am Canadian I did attempt to vote in this one. The trouble is that I was really lazy and it was my mother who forced me to vote. In Canada we used to have a party called the Reform party. It was very popular in the Prarie provinces of Canada. Yet the party members weren’t that happy so they decided to go and for the Canadian Alliance which was supposed to be a big Alliance of several parties…this got a lot of people scared. Why? well…in most peoples eyes the Canadian Alliance is racist, anti minority, and anti everything except the majority. The problem is that a significant portion of Canada is Minority. What does this mean? Well since I happen to East Indian (check the pictures page) it could be not good for me…so my mom dragged me out of bed in the morning and asked me to vote. Being a good guy that I am, I voted for the people who could really stop these people: The Liberals. They’ve been in power for a long time and they’ve done a good job. I’m not saying that they know everything, credit to all the other parties (except Alliance) for their good ideas, but we needed to vote for people who would stop the the alliance. In this election I couldn’t afford to vote for people who wouldn’t win outright.

To those who don’t know how the Canadian system this is how it works. People in each riding (district/county/area of certain number of people) elects a Member of Parliment to represent that region. The MP can belong to a political party (in most cases he/she does). The party that wins the most seats across Canada then forms the Cabinet of Ministers and controls the House. The House of Commons currently contains 300 (or 301, can’t remember) seats. Since every member gets to vote on a bill and party solidarity is a big thing, it is very important to get a majority (151 or more seats) so that laws your party wants to make get through…

The Liberals were very lucky in this election in that they got waaaay more seats than last time, about 15 more. This is good because it means that the country trust the government big time. Good for me, I guess since the Alliance didn’t get in.

That’s all in news for me for a little while…