Do you get the feeling that nobody in the election is offering you what you want? Do you ever think that what you need just isn't being offered up?
It's like none of the parties really has the answers. Sorry we are all out of new ideas, we might have some of this, but none of that. Well maybe not.
No cheese today. No cheese for you.
Calling this election so early must have seemed like a good idea at the time to Stephen Harper.
Then came all that Mike Duffy testimony and voters started to take notice.
Somebody had some explaining to do and the Conservative leader wasn't about to start, leaving voters wondering who knew what.
The NDP is on a roll and is getting much of its support from Quebec.
It's not a pro-NDP vote, more like an anti-Harper vote.
Besides, Quebec has been sending a majority of opposition members to Ottawa for a quarter century.
For now the dippers are giddy with the prospect of winning but I'm not convinced that is about to happen. The tax-and-spend image of these social democrats may be a little too much in these uncertain times. And Tom "50 percent plus one" Mulcair may find that many voters don't agree with his criteria for breaking up the country.
He even thinks the Supreme Court justices got it wrong.
His message inside and outside Quebec is not always the same. Lacking clarity we might say.
In this early going Justin Trudeau seems to have found some sea legs and he may indeed become more competitive than many first thought.
He held his own in the first debate and if he does so in the next ones, voters may take a more serious look.
It will be a long campaign indeed with many surprises yet to come, and nothing is certain except that the guy who figures out the cheese thing just may be on to something.
PKP just got married. Congratulations are in order.
But already this week he is sounding like a spouse who’s trying to figure out who gets the silverware in the divorce settlement.
Peladeau must like fighter jets because he wants some Canadian CF-18s: It’s one of the first items on his shopping list for an independent Quebec.
Cover the Maple Leaf with a fleur de lys sticker, erase any English and voila you have the Quebec air force.
He also wants Coast Guard ships, and bridges and national parks and so on. Maybe even a few Canadian Tires. Whatever..
If this is the best he can do then the federation appears to be safe for now and for a very long time to come.
MNAs stepping down must stop
Finally, this has got to change.
It is wrong when elected MNAs want to take their ball and go home. Two more Liberals have decided to quit a year-and-a-half after being elected.
Why? Because they weren’t invited to sit at the cabinet table.
So Marguerite Blais and Gilles Ouimet will get their departure bonuses and the taxpayers will end up paying a million dollars for two by-elections.
All because of vanity, pride and self interest.
A million dollars that won’t be buying school books or hospital supplies. It's shameful.
