The sun'll come up, tomorrow

Yep, there it is.

So, a minority Conservative government in leftie Canukistan. You'll recall that all the suspected homos, both out and closeted, fled the federal Tories a while back. And straight supporter Belinda Stronach followed a bit later by also defecting to the Liberals. Pray (as it were) for former provincial politician John Baird to make it into the new Tory cabinet.

Baird was elected last night in an Ottawa riding, and in fact hand-picked by the party as a candidate over a loony far-right challenger. Baird officially supports same-sex marriage and his website doesn't mention anything about his private life (I feel like a four-year-old: nudge, wink). We're gonna need Baird to be loud and have a big honkin' portfolio in order to provide some small balance to the nutbars in caucus.

More in a few minutes....


ADDENDUM: All three pro-same-sex marriage-bill-voting Tories were re-elected last night: Jim Prentice (Calgary Centre North); B.C.'s James Moore (Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam); and Nova Scotia's Gerald Keddy (South Shore-St. Margaret's).

That's out of 124 seats for the Conservatives. With the Bloc Quebecois and NDP numbers (51 and 29 seats, respectively, with only a couple of all those against queer nuptials), same-sex marriage seems safe, even if socially conservative Liberals were elected all over the place. I expect there'll still be enough Grits to vote in favour....