When I trundled off to an advance poll a few weeks back, my heart wasn’t all a-flutter at the prospect of marking an X against some Tory candidate’s vaguely remembered name.
But I did it anyhow. Not because of any particular love of the Conservative party or of its current leader, Andrew Scheer, a fellow who always manages to sport a goofy look, as though endlessly wandering into his own surprise birthday party.
Nope, I did it because, as far as I could make out, all the other parties had only one thing in mind for my province: economic and political castration.
So, like many Albertans, I picked someone from a party whose expressed aim didn’t include sending us back to being little more than forelock-touching serfs for the glib elite of central Canada.
But the way the pompous blowhards of that particular geographic region now tell it, we were idiots in picking Tories for all but one of our MPs while kicking into touch the few Grits who’d managed to grab an Alberta seat four years earlier.
Instead, we should have been smart, like those Quebecers. They’ve played the political game for decades, making every prospective party pony up big time in pretty promises in return for their deliberately fickle votes. That’s apparently how you do it: play one bunch off another and then vote strategically. (Of course, being guaranteed more seats by the Constitution than your population actually deserves helps with such a self-serving strategy.)
Instead, we western simpletons voted from the heart, we are now arrogantly informed, as though someone pontificating in Toronto has any clue what’s in the hearts of so many Albertans these days. If they did, they’d blanch a whiter shade of pale.
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See Also:
(1) Justin Trudeau’s crocodile smile for the West
(3) Does Canada needs a ‘war cabinet’ to keep from falling apart?
(4) Tories, Liberals raked in millions, NDP and Greens lagged far behind
(5) No point in Tories changing their leader if they don’t change their message
