We are not having a summer election - that's six weeks of bad television and partisan editorials on steroids that will not disturb our vacations.

Yah! Of course there are still serious issues to discuss: the near fatal death of manufacturing in Canada, a nuclear-medical global crises, and growing personal economic tragedies.

Naturally, opposition parties are anxious to hold Mr. Harper to account, at the very moment the public agrees.

That means, instead of six week of election campaigning, we now have an entire summer of campaigning leading to a fall election. We have traded six weeks of rancor for six months of it.