Julianna Yau’s blog

I woke up this morning to a sense of dread when seeing the tweets waiting for me on my Blackberry. Last night, I had decided to go to bed rather than watching the election results, because I couldn’t do much about it by then anyway. And although that saved me from a night of worry, I spent most of today feeling slightly naueous because the Waterloo Region is now completely represented by the Conservatives. That means I’ll have to work much harder to ensure that the person and party elected to represent me will actually do so. And everyone who knows me knows I have nothing but time between my day job, sculpting, being my own agent, running one of the region’s arts newsletters and my copious amounts of volunteer work in the arts community.

So, in the interest of not seeing the glass as completely empty:

• At least the Conservatives only have a minority government
• At least I’m not the only one who isn’t comforted by the statement that “at least the Conservatives only have a minority government”
• At least the Conservatives’ attempt to slip arts budget cuts under the radar failed miserably and, instead, brought the issue to the forefront as an election issue.
• At least the fear of a majority Conservative government has resulted in a wave of strategic voting from all fronts.
• At least people are becoming more aware of how broken our electoral system is, and continuing to work against it.
• At least we don’t have to put up with quite as much campaigning as our neighbours down south.
• At least I still have art, chocolate and scotch.