Guys, we did it.  We beat them! We beat the Conservatives! (USA! USA! ‘er … I mean … CANADA! CANADA!) A little over a year after being democratically elected (even if none of us voted for them), we’ve finally beat the Conservatives!  It has been a hard year for us citizens, filled with a lot of complaining and … well … wasn’t the complaining enough?  But all that hard work has finally paid off because the NDP has beaten the Conservatives … in a poll … by three per cent.  But, they’re winning!

That’s right, in a recent poll 38 per cent of Canadians said they’d vote for the NDP, which to most people wouldn’t seem like that much, I mean I’m no mathmatologist, but 38 per cent seems like less than 50 per cent.  But that’s because most people don’t know how democracy works, because you only need 40 per cent of the vote to get a majority in Canada, and 38  is only two per cent away from 40!

And, if 40 per cent of the vote is 100 per cent of the vote, then that must mean that the 35 per cent ranking that the Conservatives have must only account for 85 per cent of the vote. And 85 is a far cry from the 100 per cent needed to win this election (And don’t even get me started on the Liberal’s 18 per cent of the vote that only equals 45 per cent of the vote).  So, the NDP has this baby in the bag, with 95 per cent of the vote!

Wooo-hoooo!  NDP!  NDP!  NDP!  Go … Thomas … Something-Something!!!! (Let’s pop the corks on our Jim Beam bottles!  It’s a celebration!  Actually, if your Jim Beam bottle has a cork in it, you should probably return it … it’s most likely been tampered with.  Seriously …)

So, what does this mean to the Conservatives?  Does it mean they need to shut down that omnibus bill they just passed (all 400 pages of it)?  Does it mean they need to stop adding amendments to the omnibus bill they just passed?  Does it mean that we’ll finally get back to what Canadian politicians do best and have a forced election?

You betcha!

Well, actually, no. It means none of those things. In fact, it actually means very little, to nothing. The Conservatives still hold a majority; can still pass literally any bill they want to pass; and get to keep it that way until 2015. And all the NDP can do is toot the fact that they have an approval rating three per cent higher than the Conservatives right now (probably because Canadians can’t get mad if you can’t do anything).

And I say right now, because I mean right now (and because, really, 600 words is a lot of words to write … drunk on a Monday night), because if the Conservatives play their cards right, they could leave all this controversy behind them.

Look, the Conservatives have spent the last year pushing through all the bills that were literally the reason they were held in contempt of parliament (and then, were subsequently re-elected by all of you), but now they’re done!  They passed them all!  And now all they have to do to get us to like them again is … nothing.

That’s right.  If the Conservatives spend the next three years just doing nothing, we’ll all forget about the mean stuff they did at the start of our relationship, and think they’ve actually changed – because people change right?  Please, please don’t leave me Conservative!  I’M SORRY!!!!

But we Canadians are a pretty forgetful bunch … I mean, do any of you even remember why Harps was held in contempt anymore? Me neither.

Nathaniel Moher lives in Vancouver, vacations in Vancouver, and works in Vancouver.  He’s once been to Crofton.  Nathaniel writes TV shows to pay his bills and writes Golden Girls fan fiction to fulfill his dreams of writing Golden Girls fan fiction.  And yes, he will date you.

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