And one last post on the May 2nd federal election. The Conservative majority has been trimmed slightly from 167 to 166 after a recount gave another Quebec seat to the NDP by a margin of a mere nine votes. This is why voting is important, people! (Ignore the fact that it changes nothing in terms of actual power distribution in the upcoming parliament.) The NDP now have 103 seats, tying it with the biggest Opposition Party ever (with Joe Clark’s 1980 Conservatives).
Don Davies, the MP for my riding of Vancouver-Kingway, handily won re-election with over 50% of the vote, more than the Conservative and Liberal candidates combined. In a vivid display of the Liberals’ fortunes in an election they directly contributed to happening, this is the campaign office of the Vancouver-Kingsway candidate the day after the election. That’s a lot of huge, unused signs. Ouch.
