Saturday September 18th, 1:27pm

Welcome to the first post of the 2021-2022 year! It’s my grade 11 year at my school, and it also is the year of the next Canadian election. As this election approaches, I wonder a few things. Mainly, how is the Canadian government structured and elected? I also wonder how accurate my predictions on how Canadians will vote, and what issues will be of utmost importance. The student vote is also coming to my school. I have a prediction of who I think the winner is going to be but I’ll save that for a bit later.

Sunday September 19th, 2:34pm.

OH MAN. I am not looking forward to tomorrow. I am so nervous about the potential results of the election. I think a lot of people feel this way. The conservatives and the liberals have quite close numbers, but the liberals are leading by a small percentage. I’m getting this info from CTV. I am scared of the possibilities this election brings. Climate change is becoming more and more prevalent  throughout the world and the Canadian government needs to address this in a much more substantial way than it currently is. The party that wins this election is going to be in charge of managing this surmounting task.

Monday September 20th, 7:56am.

It’s the morning of the federal election, and the student vote. I think Canadians will vote with what they believe. I hope that they don’t vote on a single issue. I feel confused about why our government works the way it does. You can’t elect the MLA you want without also putting a vote towards the party. If you love the liberal MLA  but dislike the party leader, what do you do? You’re stuck in a position where you have to either choose your country or your community. Why is the government structured like this? How could we fix this? Could we fix this? I made a short film about making this decision and how potentially stressful it can be. It’s set to a song that feels like a panic attack caving in on you.

The girl in the video is having anxiety attack over who to vote for in the election. The video is supposed to put you in her head with the things she’s thinking about. I hope you enjoy. It should feel like chaos.

Monday September 20th, 12:04pm.

Going back to my thoughts this morning, could we change how our elections work? Could we change how our government is structured? I did a little digging into why we have our government structured like this. My understanding of it is that lobbyists give money to MLA’s or other people of power in all levels of the government. They only receive this money if they promise to vote against election reform every time is it brought up. The lobbyists want the government to stay how it is so they can remain in power. So on one side of the equation you have the people in power working with individual citizens who want election reform, and on the other, is the lobbyists who want it to stay the same and with the reciprocates of money to keep it that way.

Monday September 20th, 7:58pm

The student election has been counted and the winner decided. It will be announced tomorrow in 1st period. The federal election has been mostly called. The liberals are predicted to win by a slim margin, but still keep a minority government. This election has felt like a waste. So much money has gone into it. That money could have helped so many people. I feel disappointed.

Tuesday September 21st, 4:15pm

The results of both elections have been declared and I feel animated by the outcome of one of them. Take a guess. The NDP came first in the student election. This makes me hopeful that the in the future elections we might see some potentially radical change. The Liberals remaining in power feels ok to me. I just noticed how much this post talks about my feelings around this elections. I don’t often write like this but I think I like it. It’s interesting that this comes up when talking about politics.

Tuesday September 21st, 8:03pm

I feel like this election has shown me a lot. This is the first time I have really been educated about how government works and about how Canadians choose the Prime Minister. I am hopeful for the future and trying to focus on the positive in the present. The influence of lobbyists is not what I think decisions should be made under, and elections stress me out. In conclusion, things happen, and time waits for no one. Thank you for reading, and goodnight.