Well, no voting in a Canadian election for me, which is just as well as I still don’t have my sodding passport yet so couldn’t register anyway. See how I’m making this tremendously important story entirely about my own petty bureaucratic struggles? Read and learn, my friends. You too can become this egotistical.

Anyhoo, 152 to 152, with the speaker breaking the tie. The initial vote was on the regular budget, but the one that mattered was the second budgetary vote, the “NDP budget”, so called because of the $4.6 billion in extra spending on social programs that my favourite social democrats demanded from the Liberals as a price for their support. Tommy Douglous would be smiling, if he weren’t so fucking pissed off about his grandson’s choice of television shows on which to work.