Why We Need An Election

Listening to the discussions about the revelations at the Gomery Inquiry I am struck by how often I hear the following topics that really bug me.

1) We are spending more money for the inquiry than was taken or used inappropriately.

Rebuttal: The statue of Justice is blind because she's not counting the money being spent on ensuring justice is served. If we as a society decide that we only investigate and prosecute crime where we are sure we will not cost more than the cost of the crime, then tomorrow there could be a crime wave of petty theft and not one case would be investigated because the cost of having the police officers out and asking questions would quickly outstrip the cost of the crime. Its not a society I would wish to live in.

Crime should be investigated, criminals brought to justice. Cost should not be a deciding factor of when we do this.

2) Its only a few bad apples, why punish all Liberals for the actions of a few?

Rebuttal: There is actual corruption, and then there is the environment that fosters corruption. Power corrupts, and the longer a single party is in power the more corruption seeps in. Its a fact of government. The reason democracy works better than many other forms of government is that the party in control gets changed every few years to keep corruption from becoming systematic.

Even if most Liberals had nothing to do with actual corruption, they are part of a government that has become more concerned with being in power than governing. Its the nature of the beast. The whole party requires a shakeup that only being on the opposition benches can provide.

Therefore, I do not see it as punishing the Liberals so much as cleaning house and forcing out all the dust and skeletons and starting fresh. That is why I feel an election is needed sooner rather than later, we need to put in a new government and get Canada moving forward again while the Liberals clean house and the sycophants move on the new governing party.