AN ELECTION IS HOPE

The taxi driver is hoping—hoping that the recent movements in the Arab world will free the people from their autocratic leaders. He came to Canada from Eritrea. Is his hope audacious? Well, maybe.
Our own prime minister has just called an election. And while the news reports the sadness of it all, an election called merely because parliamentarians couldn’t get along. Should we Canadians take up the media’s sad lament, OR MIGHT WE take to the streets and kiss the ground in gratitude that such a dispute leads to an election and not the dropping of a bomb, or 40 years of bloody tyranny?
AN ELECTION IS AN ACT OF HOPE, AN ACT OF PRIVILEGE. LET US LOOK AROUND THE WORLD, AND CHERISH THAT!!!!!