The sky isn't falling - small steps are possible, giant leaps are not

From where I am now, it's not easy to get the results of the Ontario elections.

It is clear, however, that many of the campaigns I supported failed -- indeed, even my second choices lost!

And it is easy to say "the sky is falling".

But it's not.

The voters have made their preferences clear and elected people with platforms that are direct and articulated. My view that those platforms are impractical and regressive is obviously not accepted widely. I hope I am wrong and the majority are right.

Regardless, at most the elections signal a fairly small shift in the electorate's views (notice how careful the winners were not to raise radical issues -- they focused on taxes and not, for example, burkhas). And one member of a municipal council is but one member of council.

What I mean is this -- if there is a specific project (say bringing wheelchair accessibility to a specific public transit stop) let's focus on that. Forget big picture issues for the moment (and those are often merely mirages anyway) and work on the practical.

Perhaps it's being in Cape Dorset but small steps look achievable -- giant leaps do not.