I'm happy to see the NDP pick up over 10 seats, they will actually factor into this minority gov't now, which is good.

This government won't be able to do much, I hope... It's their social policy on crime that worries me... They favour a US model... which means harsher crackdowns on assinine laws (fuck) longer sentences for assinine crimes (fuck!) and more prisons to house them all (FUCK!)

I could go into why these things are actually bad... but the conservatives (big AND little C) will just jump on me and claim all the statistics I provide are liberal hogwash...

and we danced and cheered and gave away our freedoms with a smile.

The potential social policy on woman's/gay rights is what scares me. Nonetheless, I voted conservative.

Please provide your arguments; a harsher model combined with addressing root cause problems seems to me to be a sound plan. Which laws are asinine? A new thread may be required. I ask not for a hot headed debate, but because
I don't understand your position.

Much as you probably don't understand why I think that the firearms registry and the potential handgun ban is asine and dangerous for law abiding citizens. I honestly believe that a handgun ban combined with lax laws/enforcment will mean a rise in violent crime.

Further, I am interested in what statistics you can provide. I won't pre-emptively claim them to be liberal hogwash. That said, anything from an obviously biased source would be obviously questionable. I wouldn't accept any animal rights stats from a PETA site, nor would I accept any firearms stats from an NRA site.