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So I was watching my favorite T.V show and hosted by my favorite political comedian ever, Rick mercer. You might know him from the Mercer report or CBS television. He’s currently also hosting the T.V. show, “The next Canadian Prime Minister” Now I’ve always been a huge fan of this guy and if you were to go to his website, http://www.rickmercer.com/blog/index.cfm  and watch his videos you would understand why I love his work.

The show is actually off Air until the fall so please bear with me as I’m seriously depressed regarding this news! Rick Mercer has a specific part in his show named, “The rant”. In this section of the show Rick walks through streets and alley ways speaking about Canadian Politics and things he believes to be silly and or retarded on the part of the Canadian government.

This week was extremely special and also the most depressing thing I heard in many years! I’m not going to cut around the bushes I’m going to straight out say it and here it is. 72% of the eligible voters in Canada didn’t turn out to a pre election vote! If you’re not Canadian then you might be saying well who really cares but I hope I have some Canadian readers!

This is the biggest no show in Canadian history! It’s funny too because the conservative, liberal, and NDP leaders had many positive things to say regarding the results. But who are they fooling the results only represented 28% Canada’s eligible voters population.

This “no show amount” is a huge number and it simply says one thing and one thing only! We no longer believe in our political system, we no longer believe any of these parties are listening to us and we’re tired of broken promises!

A little heads up for my American readers! Please skip this part if you’re easily offended!  As a Canadian I also follow the American Political system and the electoral process there is more extreme and millions of dollars are spent. The sad part is no one’s talking about what they will do when elected they’re all too busy bad mouthing each other like its kinder garden or something. He said she said, he called me dumb, he pulled my hair when no one was looking etc… You obviously get my point… The system seems to be fading away and when a number like 72% of eligible voters don’t vote you know it’s not just a coincidence!

If the Canadian Electoral System continues on its current path and destroys in one generation what has been standard for several generations before us the Canadian government, Conservative, Liberal, or NDP can officially say iknownil!