Quick Election Thought

I think a Liberal-NDP coalition would have been best. When someone is looking over your shoulder and when you have to at least partially assuage someone else's views then you normally end up with the most fair outcome and the probability (though always remaining high when power is concerned) of corruption diminishes and less drastic things are able to be done (which can be bad as in the lack of action on let's say climate change but is also often good like cutting down on omnibus bills that include mandatory prison terms, and getting rid of the census, etc.). However, despite their history of stretching the truth during the campaign and then doing something completely different while in power, I think there's hope for the next four years. It's infinitely better than what we had with Harper and I really hope they take this opportunity to reverse this PMO-controlled "friendly (not so friendly when it was H) dictatorship" that's crept into the parliament system. Also, my friend and former intellectual property law professor David Lametti (graduate degrees in law from McGill, Yale, and Oxford, former clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada) won his riding in Montreal for the Liberals and you have to expect that he'll understand his portfolio at least a little bit better than let's say Bev Oda (former minister of Heritage) with her BA and teaching experience (not that there's anything wrong with teaching or BA degrees but the fact that she was in charge of the portfolio covering the government's updates to copyright law? Scary.) And no I'm not saying that all the politicians have to be lawyers who are hard-core experts with years of experience in their respective portfolio (if they happen to be in the cabinet) but it can't hurt, right?