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September 18, 2007

Waiting on a Tuesday

Here is some menusha running through my mind at 5:35PM as I wait for time to pass before I can head off to a late home visit across the city.

1) The Loonie hit .98 cents to the US Dollar today indicating a few things. 1) The shitty state of the US economy, 2) the housing slump is worse them people feared and 3) that all the money we have sitting in our US account at Scotiabank will soon be equal to the Canadian dollar…so much for the illusion that Canada has a horrible economy and is a socialist state (that’s for the Canada-haters out there.)  They expect parity by the end of the year; I think the first thing they should do is let us pay the US Price on books.

2) The NDP won the riding in Outremont in Montréal; now I am by far the least versed in Québec politics, but I’m pretty sure that Stéphane Dion is spinning the results out of his ass.  He states that the reason the Liberals were shut out of all three by-elections was because it was the public reacting to the government’s increasing commitment to staying in Afghanistan and that they want the Liberals to get “tough.”  The reality is Mr. Dion is that you lack as a leader and even I cannot see you as Prime Minister of this country.  While I love the NDP, they will never form a government in Ottawa, so my hopes rest in the Liberals to stay the course and wave the flag of the centre-ever-so-slightly-left and I don’t see that happening with you Mr. Dion.  Mr. Kennedy? Mr. Rae? Mr. Ignatieff? Get your shit together before October’s Throne Speech.

3) I’m thinking of going on an all out cooking spree this weekend for Mabon!  It is one of my favourite holidays of the year (who am I kidding I love them all, but Mabon has a special place in my heart) and with the weather changing I’m feeling the need to get crafty in the kitchen.

Ugh, it’s only 5:47PM? Sigh.

Posted by Nikolas on September 18, 2007 08:06 PM

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Yeah, today is the first time I've paid for something in Canada that, with the bank conversion, cost me more in USD! Yikes!

Posted by: Melissa at September 18, 2007 09:53 PM

Niko,

Check out Martha Hall Findlay, also. Out of the Liberal lot, she's got the most on the ball from what I can tell . . . .

Posted by: West End Bound at September 18, 2007 10:16 PM

Don't get your hopes up too much for the NDP in Que. Muclair, the ndp candidate, was a former Lib. Min. of Environment, and was very popular in Que. but it is only a by-election and not indicative of how an election would go in a Federal Election. The one time an ndp won in a by-election some time ago, he lost when it came to a Federal Election. The ndp are a prostest party and will never, never form the Federal Party of Canada. They have some good ideas, but they have not progessed in their ideas since the 70's. Mr. Dion is a very thoughtful, integretity person. He was not liked in que. due to his very strong stance on the Unity question when Que. wanted to separate. It was his strong stance and where the Unity question was then written into law that made the separitists question on separation where a clear question had to be asked. Not some wishy washy questions. Mr. Dion is a straight shooter. Mr. Layton helped bring down the former Lib. Party P.M. down in the 2006 election which thanks to them we now have this very right neo-con Harper govt. I know you are new to Canada but please read the history of Que. in the last 20-30 years. Mr. Muclair's election does not mean a surge in que. By the same token, read what is going on in Ont. with the NDP leader there. Still very low in the polls not going to get much better.

Posted by: sheilabee at September 19, 2007 04:27 AM