I don't know. I certainly am disappointed as to what happened last year over the coalition, the fact that it is brought up occasionally when you read Hansard, and you see “unholy alliance” mentioned a few times. But you see scare tactics from all sides, especially around elections, so it's inevitable that whoever's in power or whoever's in opposition will try to scare Canadians into voting for them.
It would be great if we could have politicians motivate people by hope alone, yet fear is a much more primal emotion and it gets to people a lot more easily than promoting good ideas. But it is quite interesting that there is confusion in Canada as to whether we elect governments or the Prime Minister, which we don't. We elect a legislative assembly of representatives, who among them choose the Prime Minister.
The last time I was in town I was speaking with Elizabeth May, and she had people asking her if we could impeach the Prime Minister, if that's not how our system works. There does seem to be a lot of confusion with the American system of government. Very likely that's because people spend a lot more time.... It's a much bigger country. Everybody knows who Barack Obama's wife is, but no one knows who Stephen Harper is married to. I think that's very interesting, very telling. I'm not saying we need to, but it just shows the level of interest.
Am I done?