The dilemma of who to vote for - Holy Terror is a new candidate to be Prime Minister. Her message "Bad boy, bad boy, whatcha going to do. Whatcha going to do when I come for you. Bad boy; bad girl

It’s Saturday morning and I had no expectations of writing this day. I am still going over my first draft of my next book which I like to work on first thing in the morning when I am fresh able. I had expected to do some domestic work. I need to remember I have a Sisters of Crime event I want to attend virtually. A Chief of Police in the States will be speaking to us about human trafficking and I don’t want to miss that. So, let’s get back to what I am doing here today. I am trying to think of who to vote for, as a process of elimination. I can vote this weekend until Monday or on election day Mon, Sep 20. I just got my voting card in the mail yesterday, the same day we could vote. Of course I notified Election Canada, just in case someone got annoyed at me and took me off the voting list. I got a call back and I explained that I had just received it in the mail. I was reminded that due to COVID everything was late. How could I forget about COVID? I have a mask in my purse and several in my car just in case I take a lapse of judgement forgetting to grab one when I go out. Now back to who to vote for. Let’s stay focused and that is exactly what the problem was with the hopefuls to be the next Prime Minister of Canada. Trudeau was in the centre so he was surrounded with love from his fellow candidates. Sometimes, they would talk over each other and mostly they would take jabs at each other rather than focusing on the presented question. We had to debate in elementary school and I have to admit, we did a wonderful job in grade 8. We had our own panel and my argument was, “We will have a Black President during our time”. Now this is in grade 8. I am proud to say that my argument was no which I won. Then some time later I was in the same position and this time my argument was that we would should see a Black President in our time. That may not be the exact words, but I won again and I was so glad when Obama won the election in the States though I feared for his safety at the time. We were taught to stay focused, to do our research (I spent a lot of time in the library) and to win. We certainly didn’t go for blows. Well maybe I threw a few punches for fun which enhanced the excitement of my classmates. I think our grade 8 teacher could have prepared them for the debate. It started with the Quebec block. He was questioned about racism in Quebec policy. This obviously shocked him. He is not a racist. He is just promoting Quebec values. You can’t wear anything religious in positions of government. Hasn’t the communist countries participated in that in years? Then what actually surprised me was his views about religion. It is clear that he is anti-religion. He said that religion does not treat women equally. Is that the only reason? At one point the Green Party leader volunteered to educate him which got him going. However, aside from all this intrinsic prejudice I could understand why he has as many votes as he has had. He loves Quebec and its’ culture. He is fighting hard to retain the French language. Now I am not going to start about how the French in Europe can’t understand the French in Quebec. Ooops, I did. However, believe it or not I thought of giving him a sympathy vote, like in Big Brother. Aside from all that racism, he is a likeable guy. Why? He has the same passion my two Montreal cousins had for Quebec. Of course they would have loved it if I moved to Montreal but I knew that would be a career kill. But, I have to admit, I do love Montreal aside from all the political strife. I now understand why when I attended my cousin’s funeral, the priest in our vehicle was trying to convince me to join his church. It is a chapel and barely occupied. I told him I would if I lived in Montreal. It is nice to be wanted. My sympathy vote would have been for his views regarding a clean environment, getting rid of the pipelines, raising the pensions for seniors etc… I was surprised that I liked the rest of what he was saying. As you know I am very concerned about global warming which Trudeau has not stepped up on. The worse of G7, I heard over and over again. It is sketched in my frontal lobe. Of course I heard the Bloc Quebec man say at one point he didn’t care about the rest of Canada because he only cares about Quebec which he wanted to stay focused on but this was the wrong platform. However, I appreciated his honesty and authenticity. You know that when this man talks, he means it, right or wrong. At the end of the panel as he was leaving and faced questions from the media, he was highly upset that Trudeau did not speak up when he was accused of being a racist. When it was Trudeau’s turn he said he couldn’t speak up because it wasn’t his turn (yup…).Quebec Bloc was “pissed”. He also said that Toronto will be happy. Hey that’s me! And I was going to give you a sympathy vote. Not nice. However, I found him to be the most respectful person on the panel who took the punches he was receiving like a man (am I being fallacious?). He said he knew he wouldn’t be Prime Minister. Now you would question why he would be on a panel for just that reason? It made sense to me. He wanted to promote Quebec. He did but not as much as he wanted. Where is my grade 8 teacher? I have to admit I laughed more listening to this panel than I had watching all the comedy shows for the month. I watched only one hour and watched the rest which I taped in segments. It was simply too painful. I had to focus on the meat because there was more of the other which the narrator tried to keep in check. She needed an electrical charge to keep each person focused on the question. The most ridiculous question of the night? Would you let a loved one stay at a retirement home. Trudeau promised his mom he would not do that (yet). We know he keeps his promises. Sorry mom. Paul from the Geen Party was a star. She is a no nonsense speaker and it is too bad that there is so much strife in her party. Also, she kind of lost my vote when she went after the police. I support the police. Singh too disappointed when he didn’t have his plan ready. It’s coming today he promised. What would my grade 8 teacher do? She would fail me for not being prepared. He also spoke about police reform within the RCMP and well, I kinda like the police. They keep me safe from the bad guys with guns who don’t know how to shoot and so may shoot me accidentally. Now I can teach them how to shoot and should be able to make more money than all my education promises to make me. Yup, teaching the bad guys and girls how to shoot their big guns in the playgrounds and malls where there are so many cameras could be big business in Toronto. However, I would feel bad when they shoot and kill their intended target. I don’t want to feel bad, because I am not a Psychopath. I have a conscious. I still have a seminar to talk to you about that topic - most interesting. Now what really killed it for me for the NDP Singh, was when a question was asked about supporting the seniors or young people. Yup that did it because he said that he goes to these nice houses (am I hearing that he is going to the Upper class for votes?) and their concern is for their children not being able to afford to buy one. Ok, now this is serious business. What about the Middle Class? No wonder my class is disappearing. Now back to the big guns. Apparently O’Toole, Conservatives want to bring back the big guns that have been banned. He also wants to continue with the pipelines. Him and Trudeau won’t make it harder for high rollers to pay their taxes or hide it off shore (hey Trump) so guess who gets hurt - the diminishing middle class. So I am wondering will I get killed going to my favourite mall with a big gun from people who can’t shoot straight and the police won’t come because they have reduced funds or don’t want to hear about how bad they are for the way they deal with the bad guys with big guns? Then there is our very own Prime Minister. He did get punched throughout the debate even more than Mr Quebec. He is the immediate threat. He is the prettiest on the panel and looks are important. There is research about that. Thank God he shaved. He looks like his youthful charming self. He tried to be composed but you could see he was “pissed.” He made the mistake about using an analogy of throwing tomatoes at China. Boy, that was an opening for the others. We know where we stand with him. He made lots of promises, which heck, he promised before and it did not happen. Will his looks get him re-elected? I don’t think so this time around. I think from what I saw the Conservatives will win. Now that is just a thought. Should we make a bet? O’toole must have had my grade seven teacher. He has obviously been coached to keep on smiling. However it kinda looks forced, more like a grimace. That must be hard. Mr Quebec Bloc can teach him that it is ok not to smile and still look like a stand up guy. I emailed him because I am concerned about military pensions. I hear they want to take off 25%. Politicians are looking for money so ok, let’s take it from our veterans? He has not responded because he is kinda busy. But if you come from his town and it is an emergency, he can be reached. Ok, Conservatives win by a minority, Trudeau second, NDP third, Quebec next (the papers in Quebec had a field day the next day in support for their representative (how many sympathy votes there - enough to win? nah) and next the Green Party (mainly because of the internal strife). Who is last? The Peoples Choice? He wasn’t even given a seat to the table. Politics can be a cruel place where it goes beyond punches. When they think you are stupid, they can shun you. That is in Canada. So, who am I going to vote for? It is a dilemma. I know there is an idea outside Toronto, I can’t remember which city it is who is putting up lawn signs to promote voting for different characters such as those in Star Wars. The money goes to charity. I know! I can get a lawn sign and get a lovely photo of Holy Terror and encourage the neighbourhood to vote for her. I will bet you that all the empty lawns will accept the challenge if I went door to door. Vote for Holy Terror! She promises to not disappoint. She will not throw tomatoes at China no sireee! Ooops - no time. (https://www.silvaredigonda.ca) Hey maybe someone will knock on my door today and ask me to vote for them. The liberals and NDP came. Conservatives and Green, nada. There is still time. Oh boy what a dilemma. Holy Terror: What do you think?