We at Bookninja feel the current election cycle has presented the Canadian voter with a dearth of effective, viable, good-looking candidates. Therefore, we propose that this great nation of donut shops and liquor stores abandon the current crop of deceitful weenies and elect instead a character plucked from the hallowed pages of Canadian literature.

In this spirit of facetious renewal, we present the following Bookninja Political Picks for the 2004 election.

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and the flag...

Wasn't Leacock a Tory? Though I suppose that today's NDP's are about where the Tories of yesteryear were in the spectrum...

Don't Forget to Shuriken the Vote

Bookninja's political picks offer both an alternative to the raging terror of the current campaign and a rock-solid statistical picture of which CanLit character will be our next PM. Vote now! Vote often!



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re: Vote now! Vote often!

are ya serious?

Just vote people! The Globe and Mail is picking up the story for tomorrow's paper. Political Notebook section.

I can't believe no one suggested Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy (Donald Jack's Bandy Papers). He would run as a Liberal being involved (or inflicted upon) with Mckenzie King's government. I predict with Bandy in the chair, we'd either be at war with the world in a fortnight or ruling it.

Edited by author 06-22-2004 03:42 PM
W.O. Mitchell's "Who Has Seen the Wind" remains prophetically Canadian. Some of the characters in it - with comments, in their own words or words describing them -parallel precisely the personalities and political posturings of present-day pretenders.

Liberal: School principal James Digby ("security from actual want, but not security from the nagging little worries of not quite enough money").

Conservative: Doctor Peter Svarich ("his need for respect and attention and his distrust of it when it was given him").

NDP: School teacher Ruth Thompson ("ain't been in the town two months an' she's tryin' to run things").

Green Party: Saint Sammy Belterlaben ("there is sorra an' sighin' over the facea the prairie - herb an' the seed thereof thirsteth after the water which don't cometh!")

Update: Today's poll (actually the poll was conducted last night by shadowy ninjas who crept into your bedrooms and read your minds using secret ninja techniques -- and no, we didn't do anything else to you. Even though we know you wanted us to) indicates the Liberal Party of CanLit is still in the lead going into the final days of the election. The gap between the parties has narrowed though -- the Liberals lead by a mere one vote -- and the other parties sense they may finally get a chance at the coveted front-table spot in Chapters. When reached for comment, candidate Jimmy said, "We'll celebrate with a ChickieNobs Bucket o Nubbins and child porn!" Duddy Kravitz, speaking from the CN Tower, which he'd just purchased, said, "No abortions for some, tiny little American flags for others." The narrator of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town couldn't be reached for comment in Mariposa, but did wave happily from the deck of the Mariposa Belle as it finally sank under the waves of Lake Wissanotti. When told his Greens were neck and neck
with both the NDP and the Conservatives, Roch from The Hockey Sweater cried, "Mère sainte de merde verte!!" The narrator of Beautiful Losers, on hearing of his single vote, was heard to say, "Man, I could really go for some of those ChickieNobs."

Whew?

Well....................................................?
You know, all things considered, our Bookninja political picks poll seems eerily close to the predicted results.... (look right) I wonder if Paul Martin will get eaten by a pack of wild pigoons. Or maybe just Jack Layton.