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So, there was an article in the Calgary Herald today about how the Bloc are willing to pull the plug on the Conservatives if they don’t do these certain things. This got me on to that think process of national politics, and the anger that I have for the Bloc. Oh, and just so you know I am a card-carrying member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta (it’s at the provincal level, so no, I’m not contradicting myself) and I’m planning on getting my Conservative Party of Canada membership too, so this may be biased, to an extent.
First off, for you non-Canadian readers or uninformed Canadians, the Bloc Quebecois is a national party that has one goal in mind, to use federal money to seperate Quebec from Canada. Nice national party huh?  The Conservatives have a minority government right now, so they have to work with other parties to keep a float. It was less than a year ago that the Liberal minority government was brought down (thankfully). The Bloc only has people running for election in Quebec. That is where my problems begin.

I mean, how can you have a “national” party that only runs in one province? You can’t. It is so stupid, especially since they only care about Quebec. It just makes me so mad. I think that we need to change the election laws so that if a party wants to run in a national election, they have to have a representative in at least the majority, if not all, of ridings in Canada.

Well, when I thought about writing this earlier today, I was a lot madder about the whole situation, and had a lot more to say. Now that I am here writing it, I can’t think of all the things that I wanted to say, or how to put them down in writing. So, basically what I am saying is that there maybe a part two to this.

Okay, so it has been a long time, so in order to make up, there will be two blog posts

I got my cell phone bill today, or rather I looked at it today, and I noticed I had long distances charges. Now they don’t tell you what number you phoned, or who phoned you on the paper bill. If you want that, you have to go to the internet. So, I looked it up and it turns out it was Mike phoning me when I was in Kananaskis Country a few weekends ago. I just think that it is so cheap and unfair that they charge me for a call that I didn’t make, someone else did. The same applies to text messaging. If you recieve a text message, it cost you money. How is that fair, you didn’t choose to recieve the call/text message. With text messaging you don’t even have a choice, it is just there. I think that it is so ridiculous. Grrr stupid phone companies, ripping you off since 1877 (or whenever).