I waited until the very last moment to write this final post of the election campaign, for a very good reason.
It was such a nice day I thought I should take a little more time to reflect on, or at least try to forget the most disgusting campaign I have ever witnessed.
And try above all to remember that Canada, the beautiful country, is not to blame.
But now the last polls are in, and I feel fairly confident that barring a last minute catastrophe, like an asteroid strike, the winner will be...
It was without a doubt the worst and most amateurish debate I have ever watched, a tedious ordeal if ever there was one.
The set was tacky, the Con fluffer Paul Wells couldn't moderate his way out of a paper bag.
And while Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May did have their moments, both failed to impress.
But were at least better than the ghastly Con Andrew Scheer.
I'm starting to feel sorry for poor Elizabeth May. She is Canada's most popular leader, and this election was supposed to be her election.
The other day she told Vassy Kapelos that she had to save the whole world.
But who will save her Green Party?
When it has been battered by one scandal after the other, and there are now two more good reasons no progressives should vote for it.
In my last post I looked at the way Elizabeth May has been cozying up to Andrew Scheer and his grubby gang. And I wondered whether the Greens are, as some say, just Cons on bicycles.
But now May has been interviewed by the CBC's Vassy Kapelos, and the situation has gone from bad to worse.
When she declared that she wouldn't even try to stop Green Party MPs from reopening the abortion debate.
And sounded like she was channelling Andrew Scheer.
I was recently reminded of what an NDP friend of mine used to be fond of saying: "The Greens are just Cons on bicycles."
At the time I didn't give it much thought, I just thought the whole idea was hilarious.
But I'm not laughing anymore. Now I wondering where Elizabeth May is taking her Green Party, and what she might do in the event of a minority government.
And in that regard I didn't find this video clip very reassuring.
It was one of the worst political moves in modern Canadian history. Elizabeth May's decision to hire Warren Kinsella to run the Green Party's War Room, or as she prefers to call it the Zen Room.
And it must have cost the Greens tens of thousands of supporters all over the country.
But at least we can now say this:
May's fling with The Prince of Darkness may have been shocking.
It's hard to believe that only a month ago I was hoping that Elizabeth May and her Green Party would do well in the federal election.
Win a few more seats to help push the Liberals in the right direction, and boost the fight against climate change.
But not any longer.
For first came Warren Kinsella.
As I said in my last post, Elizabeth May's decision to hire the toxic Trudeau hater Warren Kinsella is one of the most bizarre political decisions in modern Canadian history.
And tweets like this one only make it sound crazier.
For asking Kinsella not to be offensive or insulting is like asking a pit bull or a hyena to be happy on a diet of lettuce and tomatoes.
As I've mentioned many times I've always liked Elizabeth May. She always struck me as the kind of decent politician I admire.
I liked her so much that I would have been quite happy to see her and her Green Party prop up a Trudeau minority government if that turned out to be the election result.
But not any longer, because this is shocking.
As you may have heard, Michelle Rempel has blown a fuse again, and has caused another unseemly fuss, or in this case stink, in the House of Commons.
By accusing the government of treating Alberta "like a fart in the room."
And then launching herself at the Green leader Elizabeth May like a bat out of hell.
I mean if you haven't seen that clip you really should.
Oh boy. I knew it was just a matter of time before Margaret Wente, our Marie Antoinette, would look down from her high throne.
Or her high horse in the Con media.
And condemn Elizabeth May in the most contemptuous manner possible.
I didn't think I'd have to ride to the defence of Elizabeth May again. I thought one post was enough.
But since she has been mercilessly pilloried, and some are actually suggesting she should resign.
And you know how I hate bullies.
I thought I better write another one, and restate the obvious.
I'm very sorry to see that Elizabeth May is very sorry about livening up the deadly dull Press Gallery Dinner, with a choice comment about Stephen Harper and his cabinet.
Green party Leader Elizabeth May says she is "very apologetic" about remarks she made on the weekend that included profanity and insulted the federal cabinet about how it has treated Omar Khadr.
May played a recording of "Welcome back Kotter" -- a theme song from a 1970s sitcom -- and stated that Khadr has "more class than the whole f---ing cabinet."
Because while she does owe everyone an apology for playing the theme song from "Welcome back Kotter." That was a faux pas.
In the matter of Omar Khadr she was only speaking truth to power.
Over the years Stephen Harper's Cons have turned our parliament into a heaving grunting monstrosity, a fascist circus, a political pig sty.
They cut off debate, they answer any question about anything with the same talking points. They yell, they holler, they shout down their opponents like good ol' rednecks high on hooch. They lie like thieves, over and over again.
And when all fails they shut it down.
But even by their low standards, I found this particularly hoggish.
