The New Face of Canada

I'm sorry, world. This is gonna be the face that represents us all around the world for a few years.

Does anyone else get the feeling that if you through a big white beard and a red hat on him, he could be Santa Claus? This picture really does capture the twinkle in his eye.

It's not that I have a huge problem with the Conservative Party as a whole, I just couldn't bring myself to voting for this guy, myself. Much in the same way that I wouldn't have been able to vote for Stockwell Day, when he was running however many years ago that was.

I mean, these guys are supposed to be the front line when it comes to 'Political Branding,' and much like corporations and their branding scheme, their logo or celebrity representation is the front line. It actually kind of shocks me that a guy from Calgary, like Stephen Harper, doesn't even look like an oil tycoon of some sorts... instead, he kinda looks like he should be driving a rusted van handing out candy to kids. He honestly scares the bejeezus out of me.

Saying that... there really wasn't any candidate that really instilled trust in me. We couldn't vote for the French guy... fair do's, the Green Party... who was our representative?? The NDP wouldn't know how to lead, since all they've been doing is riding coat-tails like a backseat driver... don't want to actually give the steering wheel to them. And finally, the Liberals... as much as you'd trust Paul Martin with your own bank account, I actually sort of believed that they weren't gonna let us pay for any excess in all of their scandals.

I hope we have all learned not to elect another French Prime Minister... Jean Chretien made a good party look really bad. We're out of debt... we're not participating in any controversial wars... there is actually quite a few social freedoms... I mean, c'mon. Chretien was on the road to being a pretty damn good Prime Minister... but no, he had to rig his slacks with funnels to his friends, so he could slip money from his pockets to his buddies across Canada. In his TV movie, I hope one of the Royal Canadian Air Farce actually plays him... preferably Luba Goy.

Well, we're stuck with Stephen Harper for at least a year... unless Paul Martin steps down, the new leader shakes hands with Jack Layton and we have another Liberal Prime Minister. Hey, the spin machine works 24/7 people... let's get used to it.