amymyoung | Oct. 16th, 2008

Tuesday, Canada went to the polls, most of us stuffed to the gills still with Thanksgiving meals, and proceeded to vote for the same danged thing we did last time. This was the third election in four years. The Conservatives were hoping for a majority government that they didn’t get, but instead got small gains in the number of seats.

I won’t say who I voted for, but Stephane Dion is not one of them. I’m all for saving the planet, but lumping me, because I’m an SUV driver with a “carbon tax” — just no. My car gets better “on the road” gas consumption than the hybrid vehicles they keep bringing out and bragging about, without stating that the MPG is from laboratory environments. The real, on the road MPG is very different.

One of the downsides of voting in the Conservatives again is they’re going to relaunch Bill C-61 (formerly C-60, AKA the Canadian DMCA). I’m all for a fair copyright situation. I’m NOT for a bill that can’t be explained to anyone as to what is legal or illegal, and is being written to assuage an American group that even its own artists are leaving because they see less than 10% of their album sales!

On another note, I got to experience the lovely customer service of Bell Canada Wednesday. Calibrate your sarcasm detector against that. Three transfers, a twit who obviously wasn’t in North America who didn’t know how to operate when given a situation outside of his script, and a useless landlord are making my time trying to get the selfish twit who still has her line hooked up here and uses it for her VM disconnected so I can get my internet and phone hooked up. To say I’m unimpressed is to say that nuclear weapons leave a teeny tiny small hole in the ground.