I’ve been dreading this election.

I have been dreading it ever since I learned in Journalism class that 80 percent of Canadians agree with Harper on the niqab thing. Could my beloved Canada truly have fallen for this blatantly racist smokescreen issue? Could my nation be falling to the forces of crazy evil stupid? Could we truly have fallen so far from our own ideals that we would let the demon Harper continue to contemptuously soil every single good thing about us like an incontinent harpy?

Could we really be ready for five more years of this catastrophic nightmare?

Now that the election results are coming in, I can see that this is not going to happen, and my earlier dread seems foolhardy. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have 163 seats, and the minimum for a majority government is 170, so it looks like JT will be our new prime minister despite seeming, to an old phart like me, like he’s too young to shave.

I don’t like him. He seems very fake to me. Fake like Hillary Clinton, but admittedly, far better at it than she did. I don’t like the idea of the leadership of Canada seeming hereditary, like we voted for Justin simply out of nostalgia for his last name. I don’t like that Canadians apparently lack the vision to see that the Liberals are never going to bring about any kind of real change and that Canada needs a lot more than a kinder, gentler plutocrat.

More importantly, I don’t trust him. I don’t trust him to have the interests of the everyday Canadian at heart. I don’t trust him to stick to important Canadian principles rather than compromising with the forces of intransigent evil at every turn and then expecting us to pat him on the back when he sells the farm for a song, because after all, we still have the little red schoolhouse! For now!

Basically, I do not trust him to know when to be unreasonable. To put your foot down, stick to your guns, ignore your advisors, and do what you know in your heart is the right thing to do regardless of what the media and the opposition are going to do or say about it. Some things are simply not negotiable, and I don’t trust J.Tru to have the confidence, maturity, and integrity to be able to do this when it is called for.

And it will be called for.

Still, the traitor Stephen Harper has set the bar so low that it would take a doctorate in geology from a very good school to find it, so that all Justin Bieber Trudeau has to do is refrain from gleefully rolling in his own shit to seem like a superstar.

The important thing is that the Anybody But Harper Party seems poised for the win. It bothers me that Harper will lead the official opposition, with probably something like 100 seats, when what the big-L Liberals need most is an NDP opposition nipping at their heels and their conscience.

But at least Historical Villain and International Man of Misery Stephen Harper will no longer be in power.

I really don’t like him.