I don’t know how Americans can stand their year-long federal elections–ours has only been going on for a few weeks (though I guess in reality it’s been several months now) and I’m already tired of it. I thought at first that it’s because I’ve already made up my mind who I’m voting for, but I suspect that even undecideds are sick of the whole process.

At least I can vote for the guy I want in; my Mom is considering holding her nose and voting strategically to try to prevent a Conservative candidate from getting in (more of a problem in BC than downtown T.O. I expect she’s more determined after the Conservatives’ bilge yesterday about the Liberals and NDP “supporting child pornography”). Yuk. I’m not sure how they’d ever get proportional representation to work, but anything‘s got to be better than this “first past the post” silliness.