15th
Saved by Quebec
by rabble staff
rabble board member and columnist Duncan Cameron has his take on last night’s results:
The Harper attempt at forming a majority government was stopped at the Ottawa River. The Conservative campaign succeeded in reviving the Bloc Québecois. Putting to rest his critics, Gilles Duceppe managed to keep the nearly 50 seats needed to ensure that to win a majority the Conservatives had to win 62 per cent of the seats outside Quebec (or 145 out of 233). With 133 seats added to his 10 in Quebec, Harper came close, thanks to Conservative strength in Ontario.
Listening to what Harper had to say about locking up 14-year-olds, seeing his disdain for artistic endeavors and thinking about a free market economist holding power as the world financial economy collapses, much of Quebec decided to vote strategically to stop him.
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