Dear Jane, Bill, et al.

Dear Jane, Bill, et al.

Thank you for keeping me abreast of the whereabouts of Michael Ignatieff. The Globe and Mail’s story on the speech he gave in England changed my life. I am not exaggerating. I was unaware that opposition M.P.s were ever allowed to leave the country on anything short of an official junket – especially in the middle of summertime. Suddenly, being the Leader of Opposition looks like a pretty good position, I intend to apply for it should it ever come open (come on, going to England in July and calling it work – sweet!).

Also, thank you for your continuing election speculation. Without your continuous speculation, I would likely believe that Canadians don’t want an election. With a four party race and the two leaders tied, I would be liable to believe that no party would be willing to pull the plug. However, your hard hitting analytical coverage – with all the polling, poll commentary, graphing of polls, and tracking of polls, etc – has shown me how interested the parties are in having an election. Especially Mr. Ignatieff – as leader of a party that does not support losers, who knew he was so anxious to put his job on the line after just six months?

You must have a team of crack researchers, because it is truly breath taking how much ink can be spilled on election speculation. Although, I could use a bit more coverage on Harper's motivations for an election. You would think that someone up on the Hill would want to try to work together - especially considering the success that Merkel has had in bidding her time in a coalition with socialists that will likely take her to majority territory in September. However, you keep telling me that he is a super smart economist - so he must have an economic model worked out that will lead him to his covetted majority.

However, all this insightful reporting on non-elections cause me concern – what will you do when we have a majority government? I guess in many ways you have been lucky that there has only been minor news stories, such as a Canadian being denied passage to Canada, our intelligence service abusing peoples rights, the government introducing tons of crime bills that will not reduce crime, or the government giving huge amounts of money to bad boy corporations – because obviously GM knows better than the Conservatives about how to spend tax payers money (and much better than Nortel and those other hi-fi cry babies).

Finally, if you do see Paul Wells in the Press Gallery (he is the guy with the big head) – thank him for me. I am sorry to say that I was ready to leave you, until he showed me how far you have come since Phil saw fit to give Eddy the boot (and after Eddy had done so much for the paper – like create the Globe and Mails own font!). On the surface, your political coverage looks exactly the same, but since reading Paul, I now know to look deeper.

Keep up the good work!