With the Ontario provincial election happening today, I’m reminded of the time I unexpectedly got to vote in that province.
It was while I was at Western completing my Master’s of Library Science degree and it happened during a federal byelection in London North-Centre which featured Elizabeth May parachuting in to try to win the Green party’s first seat.
I have a memory that I almost pulled the lever for her, just on the basis that I like the idea of more parties and more viewpoints having representation. But in the voting booth (in the lobby of our apartment building if I remember correctly), I balked and put my mark beside the NDP candidate’s name (little good that it did.)
But let’s hope a wide swath of Ontarians are also willing to put an X beside the name of their NDP candidate today and the results are very different! 🙂
