True, Montreal in 2010 didn’t quite feel like Montreal 1995. No Anglos go home scrawled on the McGill library; the only guy who told me to go back home was wobbling drunkenly down St. Denis around midnight.

But in this election, was it not the same M. Duceppe I’d voted against in 1997 when my dear Parti Vert was just as unlikely to win as the NPD? The same man still insurmountable when I returned to Montreal a decade later, 15,000 votes ahead of his nearest 2008 competitor?

Why did Montreal wait for me to leave to decide to embrace anglos? If the Orange Surge had happened 3 years ago, we might have stayed.

I’d thought here in Guelph, where the Greens had gotten 21% of the vote last election, there would be Green momentum. Not so. Looks like I will have to retire to Saanich if I want to enjoy Green fever. In the meantime, I’ll finish reading Mr. Layton’s books and see if orange might be my true colour.