Dear United States

I'm going to close my eyes. If, when I open them again, you've taken Alberta, I won't say anything.

Election Day

According to the CBC:

Party	Elected	Leading	Total
LIB	135	1	136
CON	93	4	97
BQ	54	0	54
NDP	19	1	20
NA	1	0	1

Highlights:

1. The house has 308 seats. A majority is 155 seats. The Liberals and the NDP together just barely squeak by with enough votes to control the house. (It's an odd thing, Canadian elections. Canadians don't elect the government, they elect the parliament. Whomever can control the house gets to form the government).
2. Jack Layton won his seat in Toronto-Danforth, beating out incumbant Liberal (and socially conservative) Dennis Mills.
3. Sam Bulte won in my riding, beating out my favourite candidate, Peggy Nash.
4. Tragically, Cheryl Gallant (who, I think, caused the Conservatives the most PR problems) won her seat.
5. Olivia Chow, wife of Jack Layton, lost her seat to do-nothing Liberal incumbant, Tony Ianno.
6. Paul Martin's own seat wasn't safe this election. Although he came in with a strong win, it wasn't called until fairly late in the evening.
7. For a brief moment, the Marxist-Leninists were polling in the lead in one riding. Everyone got quite the chuckle out of that.
8. The one independant seat went to a Conservative-wannabe.
9. Ruby Dhalla and Tony Valeri won. Both were people that Martin installed in their ridings. (Actually, CBC called Valeri's riding to the NDP. Their site now says that Valeri won).

Bhopal

Looks like the Indian government finally decided to submit the paperwork:

The March 17 U.S. Federal Court ruling was in response to a suit filed by some of the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, when methylisocyanate leaked from a plant run by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) killing thousands in its wake. The court ruled that the parent company, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), should clean up the abandoned and heavily contaminated site of the now closed plant. For this to happen, the Madhya Pradesh Government and the Centre had to state that they had no objection. What seemed on the surface to be a straightforward affair, particularly as it did not involve any costs to be borne by either Government, became a protracted affair with three people going on a fast unto death.

I am certain that there's some kind of weird reason why the Indian government would resist submitting this paperwork to the US Courts. But for the life of me, I can't figure out what it is.

I still want to see if Warren Anderson will be extradited to India.