All I can say is I am glad that the Canadian Elections are only about a month long, unlike our American cousins who can revel in them for almost two years.
I was going to write about what other financial bloggers have been saying about the election, but no one seems to care, so maybe I should just shut up too? Nah, but the most interesting weeks in an election is the first and the last, so maybe I’ll shut up ’til the last week before the election for now.
Puffins, Misunderstood Poopers
The biggest controversy of the week was an animated “attack” ad where a puffin flies across the screen and poops on Stephan Dion. The media were appalled at the audacity of this ad, me I thought it was funny, but it does give puffins a bad name.
Puffins are cute birds, and also an English book publisher (at least it was).
I hope there is not a severe Liberal backlash of Puffin bashing, please don’t blame the species for the act of a single deranged member with Tory leanings! Maybe we can get Sir Paul McCartney in to help protect the Puffins? They are cuter than seals, in my humble opinion.
Nothing Else Really
Really, it’s been kind of boring, I was hoping to hear of great tax breaks, or income splitting, or something good like that, but nothing. Ho-hum another boring week on the election trail.
No Candidate Visitors Yet Either
No one has come to my door yet, except one guy trying to sell me windows, so I haven’t been able to ask any of my canned questions for the Candidates either. The windows guy did agree with my stance on income splitting, but was disappointed when I didn’t want to buy his windows. He ran away when I asked if he needed any help, but he’d have to pay me in cash, not sure why.
No calls about putting signs on our lawn either. Now I haven’t cut the lawn lately, so it does look fairly shabby, so that might need to be remedied as well.
I’m glad that the Green Party is being included in the debates… other than that I think the whole election has been incredibly dull. Its hard to get excited when a pooping puffin is the big news.
I wonder if we could vote for that puffin?
The real story out of that was the Father forgiving Mr. Sparrow, that showed he is a man of conviction.
Income splitting? Let them come to my door and tell me!