SHAUN SMITH'S SUNDAY SUNDRIES

In a previous post, I talked about Margaret Atwood's suggestion that artists both risk takers (and hard workers) as well as ordinary Canadians. After watching the results from the election on TV and online, and reading the various kinds of diagnoses of what went awry for the various parties and the prognoses by political pundits, I stumbled upon on our historic low voting percentage: 59.1%. With 40% of eligible voters not voting and 37% of the voters voting a Conservative government back in, we have, it seems, directly or indirectly said yes to the status quo and no to another, riskier result. Perhaps the economic tsunami has us running for cover, the falling part of our global financial markets that was based on buying and selling risk has made us afraid of risk.