Election issues, well, I hate the idea of another election again, that really won't decide anything, thus will be another waste of more taxpayer dollars at time where that is the last damned thing we need. I hope that if Iggy provokes this one with his grandstanding, people punish him for it.
I really don't know what the election would be about, except personality. Harper is doing pretty much exactly what the Liberals would be doing for the economy if they were at the helm. Afghanistan might heat up a bit (as our casualties rise again
) but so far there hasn't been much noise about extending our mission thus its hard to say there is an issue. The environment doesn't seem to have the sense of urgency in the media coverage that it did a year or two ago, in large part because the gov't is being dragged along (there seems to be a lack of a focusing issue there). Even in this thread the discussion is more about changes people would like to see in our process that actual issues.
As far as the GG and the Senate go, while I believe that there should be changes, these are things that would have to be constitutional changes. Its been almost 20 years since Mulroney gave up on fixxing Trudeau's screw ups, so the real question is are Canadians ready for new rounds of constitutional wrangling? Honestly I doubt that anything would get solved because of the deeper divisions than we faced 20 years ago. I think the "divide and conquer" strategy employed sucessfully by Chretien to keep power and to push his agenda has strengthened a lot of the divides/animosity between the regions, and that there wouldn't be any agreements, because the different regions all have "pet" issues they want addressed. I actually do feel pretty pessimistic about the future of this federation for that reason: how long can we stay in the holding pattern we are in currently, with those vast ideological differences, before the cracks deepen and tear the country apart?