the daily snivel

This is an op-ed piece in today's Globe and Mail. It succinctly says what I cannot about why voting for the Conservatives tonight would just be a constitutional nightmare. Effectively, if a Conservative majority couldn't effect constitutional change legally, it would do so illegally. If a Conservative majority didn't like a decision of Canada's highest court, it would invoke the 'Notwithstanding Clause' of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to overrule it. If a bunch of cranky, fundamentalist extremists wanted to pass a draconian bill to criminally prohibit abortion, there probably wouldn't be a whip within the party to stop it.

So yes, I voted tonight, neither for the distasteful Liberals nor for the untrustworthy Conservatives.

Full article here...