Harper gains twentyish seats, Vaughan keeps its Liberal MP and I get some free food.

I should have been studying last night, but I really do love being a part of election hype (and thus, I will be spending more study-time watching the Obama-McCain debate tonight) so I decided to go to the results party of my riding’s (Liberal) Member of Parliament, Maurizio Bevilacqua .

While he did win, Harper gained twenty or so seats in Parliament, for a slightly stronger Conservative minority government. Despite all of Stephane Dion’s ads that said “Only the Liberals can stop Harper,” in reality, it was the Bloc that stopped Harper from gaining majority. Because of the Bloc’s dominance in Quebec, Harper didn’t get the nine more seats he needed.

A lot of people think Dion should resign now, for the sake of the future of the Liberal Party. The fact that his English sucks was a huge turnoff to voters. Having heard him speak two weeks ago at a rally, I can verify that - you have to really focus on him when he’s talking. I’m sure a lot of people would have voted for the Liberals had they had a leader who could speak English fluently, considering English is the predominant language in Canada and also one of the most important globally. A lot of people probably can’t picture their leader not speaking the same language as them, and most of the rest of the country. As great of a language French may be, English is just the more official official language.

But anyway, I am still glad that I went to the results party. I met some new people, met some old people, shook hands with Maurizio, talked to the Rogers cameraman who got kind of annoyed at me…

Oh and more thing. Free food.

That’s not to say I’m not into politics at all, I am. I’ve spent a weekend or two volunteering for Maurizio’s campaign. It’s just free food is such a nice addition. A couple old ladies that sat at my table were just packing up those sandwiches like crazy. They took loads of napkins and just kept on wrapping the sandwiches, put them into plastic bags they brought, and finally stuffed it into their handbags, coat pockets and pant pockets. Who doesn’t like a little free wine, free beer, free pizza, and free sandwiches?

Here are some pics from Bevilacqua’s results party, last night at some banquet hall in Woodbridge: