Canadian voters may not be ready to go to the polls for the third national election campaign in five years but they will - some of them, anyway - on May 2.
Out here on the Wet Coast, voters may be even less enthused as they face numerous elections in the coming months: a mail-in ballot on the harmonized sales tax in June; perhaps a provincial election after that; and civic elections in November.
It's understandable that many Canadians wish federal politicians could just get along and do their jobs, saving taxpayers $300 million in election costs.
But if we trust politicians to do their jobs, then we have to accept it when they say enough is enough and they need a new mandate from voters.
Instead of whining, then, maybe we should find out why our MPs and newly nominated candidates think they need our vote to be able to do their jobs properly.
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