Canada is boring.

I think I can admit to myself that I don’t actually like Canadian politics.
Which is an awkward thing to admit to considering I’m pretty much majoring in polisci and I’m Canadian and therefore whatever the hell I’m doing will most likely involve the combination of Canada + Politics.

Maybe dislike isn’t the word. Maybe if I said terminally bored I’d be describing how I feel about Canadian politics. Let’s be honest with ourselves: the last thing that Canadian politicians did that was remotely interesting is grant universal health coverage back in the early 60s.
Or maybe when Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act in the 70s.

Canada isn’t particularly innovative. We aren’t particularly interesting politically.
There was a great excitement here when Obama was elected as president of the US than there must have ever been for a Canadian PM. Canadians have more heated opinions about decisions they can’t actually influence than about the decisions they can. I can understand why people don’t vote simple because one option is less interesting than the other. The conservatives are stagnant, the liberals are wack and the NDP and the Greens are never going to get into power anyway.
And the leaders for all these parties are about as inspiring as my unwashed gym clothes.

You’d think a political party would be able to find just one passionate public speaker in a country of over thirty million. He doesn’t need to be a Barack Obama. He just needs to be interesting.
At this point I’d be game for the Canadian version of Sarah Palin, even though I don’t think she is a particularly gifted politicians. But at least we’d have something that people would have an opinion about.
I’d take a Silvio Berlusconi who’s been accused of having ties to the mafia simply because for once we’d be talking about what’s going on in our country rather than what’s happening around the world.
Don’t get me wrong – a global perspective is great – but at the end of the day it’s the guys running the hill at home that we, as Canadians, actually have an influence over.

For the sake of spicing up my future boring career – can we have an interesting debate going on? Can I get a little bit of controversy?

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