Way to go, Alberta!

So we had our provincial election last night, and in what was touted as potentially quite a tight race those who bothered to vote handed the PCs 72 out of 83 seats.  With what may be the lowest voter turn-out in Canadian history.

So the Tories got about 53% of the popular vote, with about 40% of the province voting - meaning the party chosen by of a little over 20% of the province now has an iron-clad mandate to do pretty much whatever it wants.  I wonder how long it'll be until we blow up another hospital in Calgary?

One can only hope for proportional representation to be brought in before the next election to even things out a bit.  And maybe for a few more people to take ten minutes out of their day to exercise their democratic right.