My heart saddened this weekend with the news of my Canadian government forming a coalition against a minority government that was just elected.

I may be wrong in my thinking that the coalition would overtake without a new election in defeating the present situation thus making it no longer a democratic nation. Where do the people get to vote again because they don't like what is happening. That would be a democracy way instead of this coalition.

Do we realize what effect this coalition would have on our neighbors to the south, the global nations that we deal with in trades. The global markets we have already created. Also to the British commonwealth which we are still apart of until the coalition takes over.

I had hoped that this would not happen as we had discussed this possibility in history when learning about other countries whose government had been overthrown and why. Were we too busy living our lives and not see the signs that were visible. Education unrest, health issues, official language disputes, loss of the industrial market, economic hardtimes.

There is a section on Oprah website under World People and Politics called World Leader Worries... not one of the people in the article mentioned this possibility. What a shock to our neighbors and the world.