this country's future is very bleak...

it's not entirely the fault of the political leadership, but the absolute failure of the political system over the course of my life time (something that seemingly gets worse, year over year) is certainly compounding it.

the environment. the economy. the social fabric. and, now, an apparent move towards authoritarianism...

it's just not where i want to exist, not who i want to exist with and not what i want to exist within.

i dunno yet. but, i think i've made a choice to leave, when it becomes feasible, whatever that means.

it took years from the time i decided to leave ottawa until i actually did. it's not imminent. but, i don't tend to change my mind very often, once i've made it up.

i want to move to a more secularly driven society with a less invasive government and if i can't find one then maybe i just need to get out to rural quebec.