At last, upon the threshold of freedom.

My last exam of the semester has come and go, and though my academics aren't exactly going as planned at the moment, I can't help but feel some sense of relief for the free time I have acquired.

The question is, what will I do with my time now?
I have some internships to apply for, houses to scope out for next year, and I suppose, some Christmas shopping.
What do I want to do? I want to find out how our government is going to emerge out of its current state, when parliament reopens in January.
I was in complete and utter awe when I heard about the plan for the establishment of a coalition between the Liberal, NDP and Bloc federal parties. Literally, my jaw dropped. Mostly because I know this Canadian history in the making and I am incredibly stoked to be around to witness it.
What are my opinions on the matter? Well, I find it hard to form one!
Personally, I think it's all a load of rubbish. Canada prides itself on the focus in puts on democracy within our nation. However, both options are looking less-than-democratic.
It is clear the Stephen Harper is a sleazy politician. He made promises that he did not keep, and I definitely don't think thats a new character trait he recently acquired. I think it is something he has been doing for years from within the party, and it is only showing now because of obvious increased media attention.
But even last night in an interview with Peter Mansbridge, he seemed like the least approachable man on earth! He snapped at Peter for probing, which is quite rediculous because anyone interviewing the Prime Minister should be probing as hard as they can for explanasions. I don't care how much it hurts your feelings, you dope, you are the fucking Prime Minister and you should be able to explain any god damn question that any citizen of this beautiful country has for you!
See what Mr. Harper does to me? Anyway, he's a proven liar, and an obvious snake - trying to pass a bill that severly stunts financial support to all political parties but his own... sounds cheap right? And undemocratic? Absolutely!
But how democratic is fusing political parties and then saying that the majority of Canadians support you? Obviously things change when you start to allign yourself with completely different ideologically based political parties. The NDP and Bloc are at least slightly close in terms of their status on the political spectrum, but the Liberals are taking a huge risk with this collaboration.
Not only this, but isn't it weird enough that one of our largest four parties is a seperatist party with its main initiative making its home province a sovereign entity? Do we really need a governing force with their influence in there too?
How good can their guaranteed right to veto (by the coalition) be in the long run? Especailly when they only represent one province?
Talk about complexity. I don't claim to know even the half of it... but I can be dissapointed in the whole thing, can't I?
Not only is this whole situation, including its two options for solutions, completely undemocratic, but the entire system in which we entrust to choose our governing party is less-than-alligned with democracy.
First-past-the-past? This fucking pisses me off, because Canada is supposed to be better than this. So many countries are better than this. Even, New Zealand! (Nothing wrong with New Zealand, though.)
We need a new electoral system, which - get this - represents the population?!?!
Unfathomable.

Now I'm pissed off! Hahahaha
Hope I didn't piss off my reader(s) as well.
If only my professor asked a question on that material this morning... I obviously would have been more successful.

I'll end with a happy note: I'm done! I'm done! lalalalalalalala (first semester that is...)

Good 'eve fellow bloggers.

Until next time-