Jack and Gilles went up to the Hill...

...but Stéphane won't go tumbling after them. To the polls, that is--his chances for an electoral crown being broken at the moment.

What is all this nonsense about how "Canadians don't want an election"? From what many pundits and politicians say, one gets the idea that actually causing people to vote in a free election is an outrageously punitive action against the populace. If that's the case, what's the point of democracy anyway?

Prediction: there will never be an election in Canada again!

Pity those poor, oppressed Americans who have to vote for the House of Representatives every two years--those groaning masses, yearning to be free of ballot boxes (oops! electronic voting machines).

Or those French who, in most districts in parliamentary elections, and in most presidential elections, must vote twice in two weeks (gasp!) so one of the candidates achieves a majority. I suppose if they were voting-averse Canadians they'd start another revolution to restore the ancien régime.

But I guess an ancien régime is what the Liberals want...

Mark C.

Posted by markc at October 17, 2007 09:37 PM