The Orange Wave

Unprecedented. Phenomenal. Amazing. There are plenty of words you can use to describe the massive surge of support for the NDP since this election began. In British Columbia, we are at 39% support, the prairies have us gaining 2% since the 2008 election. Ontario has us at 27%, while the Atlantic is up 22% to 46% support. Finally, Quebec the lovely province that it is, now boasts the NDP as their first party with 45%, a swing of 33% since the last election.

Overall, these numbers mean good things for the party, social democracy and Canada. Really good things in fact. In fact you could go on to say these polls are unprecedented, phenomenal or amazing. We might as well call those the words of the day. Now, as lovely as votes are, the true measure of importance in our political system is seats. The new seat projections for the NDP are fucking beautiful. As high as 100 seats could be captured by the NDP, most of which falling victim to the Orange Wave in Quebec. It appears we could win a majority of all seats in Quebec, or in our best case scenario, strip the Bloc Quebecois of its party status in the House of Commons. All very good things.

100 seats would easily mean we are the Official Opposition for the first time in Canadian history. MPs from all across Canada: the east, the west, the north, young, and old, all fighting for a prosperous and green Canada where no one is left behind. What a wonderful world we live in. We may not form the government this time around, but with the way things are going, the next election doesn't seem so far off. After all, the Official Opposition is considered the government in waiting...