A Weight Lifted

So, here we are.  A week after Election Day.  Pollsters and other prognosticators were predicting a close race.  It wasn't.  Starting with a clean sweep of all 32 Atlantic Canada seats, Liberals went on to win 184 seats, sealing their majority government for the next 4+ years.

The electoral map changed quite markedly, as shown in a useful graphic from the following article in the Huffington Post.

The post-election analysis has been in full swing and I'll talk about some of that in a later post.

For now, though, I'm just happy, as many, many Canadians are, that this decade is over.  Repairing the damage to Canada's international image, it's democratic institutions, scientific research facilities, environmental awareness, electoral fairness and many other things on a very long list will take time.  Perhaps this would be a fast-track solution: