Is this Canadian Government over...

...I sincerely hope not. I really don't feel like returning to the polls so soon. But it is a minority government and if the opposing parties don't like Goodale's proposed budget, well then that's it, back to the polls.

Am I suffering from lazy voter syndrome? I already have to go the polls in May to vote in the BC provincial election.

No I'm not suffering from lazy voter syndrome. I actually enjoy voting, but I don't like all the campaigning. The last federal election (which was only 8 months ago) gave me a serious headache. Especially the debates. So I can only imagine what it would be like to be bombarded with political campaigns at both the Federal and Provincial level.

I like the Liberal government, even though I am not the biggest fan of Martin, so I would like to see them stay in power. I don't trust the Conservatives: if the PC still existed that would be a different story, but the new Conservative government is more Alliance than PC. I won't vote NDP, after suffering through the demise of the BC economy, and I would never vote Bloq, even if I did live in Quebec. I'd maybe vote Green, but at the end of the day, the Liberals suit me. But if there is another election, the best outcome, in my opinion, would be a Liberal majority.

The dissolution of a Canadian government has happened in my life time; the last time it happened though, I was too young to care. It was 1979 and I was one. Joe Clark and the Progressive Conservatives lost a vote and in six months their government was done and Trudeau and the Liberals returned to power. I was more concerned with being fed, sleeping and playing. Now at 26 the latter are still important to me, but so is the make up of the Canadian government.

If the budget passes, then everything I have just written won't matter, other than the fact we have a minority government, which makes its dissolution more of a possibility than a majority government. But, if it doesn't pass, there will be some interesting times ahead.