Reusing news
Now, I know there are some separatists who really truly want to separate; who understand the economic consequences, and feel it would be worth it. I know them; one is a good friend of mine. (Who does not actually believe it will happen any time soon — and sometimes that it should not happen in the near future either.)
But seriously, they’ve been doing this same poll my entire life. “If there were a clear discussion of what separation would mean, fewer people would vote for it than call themselves separatists!” Either the federalists are idiots[1] and have never bothered to share this information, or the people are idiots, or the polls are really wrong. I haven’t decided which is true yet, but really: it’s enough.
In other news, high turnout in my soon-to-be-ex-town, and of my votes, (mayor, 4 councillors: all the signs in the polling place said “you will vote 5 times”) the mayor and 2 or 3 of the councillors I voted for got in. The mayor was a fairly close election, and the person I really extremely did not want to win came in second (by about 100-200 votes, out of 2200-2300 cast). Now I just need to wait for the signs to come down: “the sea of campaign posters in [STBET] outnumbers homes.”
Did I follow the campaign for where I am going to live? No. Do I know anything about its political makeup? No. (Just checked: Liza Frulla, Liberal MP, Minister for Canadian Heritage and Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, by about 70 votes in the last election. Nicole Loiselle, Liberal MNA, Assistant Government Whip, by a lot. Bear in mind this assumes I remember my new postal code correctly.)
See, I don’t mind looking at old political news. Old elections, old polls that they pull up whenever there’s been too much pro-separatism stuff in the English news, etc.
[1] Well, ok, they are. I have long believed that most of the federalists are really separatists, and vice versa.