Decisions

Today is vote day in Ontario, we go to the polls for our Provincial elections. It also has the distinction of being the first election that RTH and I are eligible to vote in. Our citizenship having been confirmed just after the last round of elections for Mayor*.

Our voter cards actually arrived in the mail on the day we closed on our Condo sale as well, which was really nice timing!

The problem is that I hold very strong opinions about voting. I get very angry with women especially who don’t but it isn’t quite so easy this time around.

For the past six years I’ve been totally uninterested in Canadian politics because I literally had no say in them and politics over here border towards the “meh” side of things anyway. We had the longest standing minority government because, as far as I could make out, no one wanted to be in power.

Now though, I am in the situation where I feel I have to vote but quite frankly I have no idea who for. At the start of the campaign I said I would vote for the party who could tell me why to vote for them as opposed to just ripping their opponents to shreds**

Sadly none of them seem up to the challenge. The polls open in half an hour and I’m still undecided.

*thus I can, hand on heart, say I had nothing to do with the Rob Ford fiasco

** this is the particularly nasty side of Canadian politics, it’s all person attacks and insults.