Mike Wilson for Prime Minister in '94

The one nice thing that has come out of the mixup in politics in the past few months is that for the first time in 10 years there is passion again in federal politics. People are starting to have opinions again.

The Liberals are split in a way not seen in this country since the Ontario provincial Tories in the mid 80s-mid 90s (but they did a better job of concealing that split, perhaps because they were not in power). The new conservative party is starting to question/define/redefine itself publicly, since Joe Clark made his comments 48 hours ago. The NDP are starting to show signs of life.

You'd think that there was an election in the air or something.

Unfortunately there is not much in it for Canadians. The Liberals don't seem to have a plan for anything, although I vaguely remember Paul Martin saying about a year ago something bold about our cities. The new Conservative Party, perhaps because it has not yet coalesced and had time for a proper policy convention, literally does not have any policies (although the conservative party website refers to an interim policy document).

This election, everybody should vote for me. This is actually possible. It's perfectly valid to write my name on the ballot and put a check mark beside it. It's called a write-in ballot.

So I guess it's official. I'm running for Prime Minister!