In the cold, grey light of morning

Nick Packwood isn't over-happy with the election results:

[. . .] a Conservative minority government. Hooray! Money well spent, I say. Congratulations everyone for wasting our time yet again and especially to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Her Majesty's time waster in chief. One bit of good news: Having refused to hand the Conservatives a majority, we can look forward to another two or three years of federal government not entirely beholden to the province of Quebec.

A special shout out to Michael Ignatieff, tonight the happiest man in Canada.

I normally agree with much of what Nick writes, but I think $300 million is money well spent: it's kept the politicians out of parliament where they do a lot more fiscal damage over the average month than a piddling $300 mil! I'm also in favour of politicians getting longer vacations for the same reason.

On the subject of the Green Party's phantom breakthrough:

Evidently it will take more than two generations of lies about "the environment" to convince Canadians to entrust the Green party with a seat. Good. After this election, I consider them to be Canada's postmodern equivalent of the Nazi party; riddled with Truthers, defeatists, anti-Semites, Luddites, fantasists, health nuts, economic illiterates and people who are somehow proud to value the landscape over human life.

All that granted, I still think the Greens were held back much more by the pantomime Elizabeth May and her will we/won't we approach to so-called "strategic voting".