This is Vanese Ferguson with Our newspoll question asks if you’d like a Christmas election.  The results are a little too close for my taste.   Which is how I think another election would go.  Bottom line is western Canada, which will go heavily Conservative, just doesn’t have the votes to counter Liberal support down east.  More than that elections are terribly expensive, and Canada is firmly in the red these days.  In May the estimated cost of this year’s federal election was $570 million dollars.  Elections Canada says that works out to about $19.98 a person.   This is to cover things like recruitment and training of approximately 230,000 election workers and worker service fees—to print ballots and lists of electors, to lease local offices and polling places, to ship election materials, to run communication campaigns, to hire temporary staff and to deploy IT equipment and telecommunications. And this time around, Elections Canada had to maintain readiness for three years because it was a minority government.  There just two things I wish for this Christmas from the federal government, absolutely no election in the near future and get your spending under control.