On a fecund Sunday the husband and I were clicking around when we chanced upon JoyTV, our regional Christish (rather than Christian) channel here in the Lower Mainland. The show was some interview chat thing hosted by a rather self-involved young man. Who spliced in onanistic “reflections” on politics and voting between the actual interview/chat portions of the show. This was apparently a recast of a live show on Vision TV from last week.

We don’t have–many, at least–theocratic evangelicals in Canada. I have a few friends who are Saved and while we don’t agree on all things we also are quite OK at finding commonalities between us, yes even when one of us is a sodomite. It’s one of the things I love about Soviet Canuckistan: we generally can get our heads around the difference between what “affects me” and what “upsets me.”

But I digress…

The show caught my attention because it featured a one-on-one interview with Green leader Elizabeth May and all-about-me dude. She was impressive: easygoing, forthright, sensible, gutsy. I loved her speaking out in favour of social justice and secular pluralism as a Christian herself. I think dude was a bit scared of her. Too right.

Among the subsequent panelists were reps from each of the 4 main parties (ici, ce n’est pas le Bloc…they weren’t interested). Two of the reps are Vancouver Centre candidates: NDP Michael Byers and Tory Lorne Mayencourt. Byers came across and bright but a bit like a pit bull; Mayencourt when from silly to incomprehensible in about 30 seconds. If Grits can abandoned the Liberals because of Dion, every self-respecting Conservative in this riding should leave Mayencourt high and dry himself.

Byers hammered the Liberal candidate for Dion’s passive support of the Tories this last session of Parliament. Green dude hammered Mayencourt’s rather tragic claims to the Tory’s having a credible environmental policy. No one came across as awesome, but Lorne was by far the loser.

The debates are gonna be interesting….