it's actually very irritating to me.

this is the guy i voted for in the election:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/frank-schiller-is-liberal-candidate-in-windsor-tecumseh-1.3051691

and the reason i voted for him is that he was a very vocal opponent to nafta. he promised he'd work to renegotiate it.

he lost in this riding to the zombie ndp vote, which preferred a local councilor running a straight-from-head-office cookie-cutter campaign. the only independent position she seemed to hold was being anti-gmo.

i would normally lean ndp, but the difference in candidates was stark. he was very independent minded and said a lot of the things i was thinking. she just read memos from the ndp's politburo, except when she decided to be vocally opposed to science.

the liberals spent years and years campaigning against nafta, but i couldn't pull up any legacy of this in my mind. or at least nothing really explicit.

the guy i actually voted for would actually be exactly the right person to send to washington right now....