If so, please weigh in here.
Rumour has it that our worst nightmare isn’t going to happen. We won’t have to listen to Lizzy May in Parliament. Whew!
Archive of entries posted on 14th October 2008
Election Day: GOTV
I can agree with Warren Kinsella to this extent:
…You? You should go out and vote. This is the greatest democracy in the world, and we are lucky that so many impressive people – of every ideological persuasion – want to help to better it. They’ve worked hard for your vote for 38 days. Today, you owe that vote to one of them…
Exactly. G et O ut T he V ote.
Call all your friends and family. Make sure they have an opportunity to vote. If they need a ride, please help them out.
Another thing you can do is call up your favourite party’s local riding office and offer to help today. Phone staff, drivers and scrutineers are always needed.
Don’t abuse this precious gift of freedom by saying you’re "too busy".
Will you also be "too busy" to complain afterwards?
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Update: I’m still trying to grasp the Elections Canada regulations concerning live-blogging. Steve Janke is even putting on comment moderation today. I may end up doing that as well between the time of the Atlantic polls closing and before the B.C. ones finally close at 10 p.m. Eastern.
More info here. Could be a late night!
Conservative Reporter: Stephen Harper asks for your vote today.
National Post Pre-Game show here starting at 4 pm ET.
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Interesting little tidbit in today’s Post – Secular Quebec’s ‘crisis of values’ shows in health problems: cardinal:
"This spiritual and cultural void is fuelled by cliche-ridden, anti-Catholic rhetoric that we often find in the media," he writes.
"By ridiculing their own religious heritage they are destroying the soul of Quebec."
Rather ironic in view of the recent brouhaha in Quebec about so-called Tory cuts to arts funding.
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Afternoon update: Stephen Taylor at National Post – Canada’s senseless ban on knowing who won.
Dief had it right
Because doesn’t it all come down to Freedom?
I am a Canadian
a free Canadian,
free to speak without fear,
free to worship God in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right,
free to oppose what I believe wrong,
free to choose those who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold
for myself and for all mankind."
-Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, July 1, 1960.
H/T Covenant Zone and so many more.
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Related: Stephen Taylor – Is s.329 of the Elections Act quixotic?