The federal election is front and center today and will remain there until all the votes are counted, because this election is tight and has the promise of surprises, with New Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives all contending.
The expectations are for the reigning Conservatives to loose, the opposition New Democrats to surprise and the Liberals to gain. However, the question is to what extend, because the pollsters have proven to be unreliable predictors of election outcomes in Canada. This is due to Canada’s district based election system and the way its population is distributed.
I expect a Conservative minority government, with the Liberals as collaborators and the New Democrats relegated to third place as opposition and a few gains for the Greens.
I know I’ll be glued to the CBC National this evening and my family and friends will no doubt be watching the results as well. I expect a Conservative minority government, with the Liberals as collaborators and the New Democrats relegated to third place as opposition and a few gains for the Greens.
I plan to go voting in about ten minutes, when the working crowd is out of the way and the stay home one still to come. This is my voting strategy as I expected it to be busy at the polling stations.
Last Friday was a busy one. I made my inaugural appearance at the Alexandra Writing center in the morning and met with John for dinner at around 4+pm. We then took in back to back Wordfest presentations at the Glenbow Museum Theatr. There I bought Ronald Wright’s book ‘Time among the Maya’, which he signed.
I was pleased to meet him in person, because I read and liked his ’Short History of Progress’. I told him of my interests and reading of Streckfuss’ report on the Aztecs, Maya and Inca going back to 1951 for me!
John and I always enjoy these events and we wanted to be sure to take them in this year, as we missed them last.
Sunday at 8:11am I started the download of Windows 10 which did not complete until 3:10pm! Then it was an other hour of installing, copying files and my testing my own programmes and website, before it was complete. I then went out to get a Windows 10 introductory reference book, which I’ll exchange today for a more extensive one.
Time to get to the polling station at 9:09am. And back at 10:08am, but making some coffee!
The polling station was quite active, but not crowded. I had wait at my poll for a few minutes and would say that about half of the fourteen polls had voters. The staff was quite up tight, but that is to be expected unless they are experienced.
And now we’ll have to wait until the polls close in New Found Land at 4:00pm our Mountain time and 7:30pm there!