No more year-long elections, please

My column this week on Loonie Politics, the first of the New Year, takes the issue of it being an election year thanks to fixed election dates and examines if it really has made our system "more democratic" as such reform proponents like to state. It's not an argument that I buy, and I lay out reasons why including those drawn from conversations I had with government MPs in Ontario on the eve of their previous fixed election date in 2011 as to how it simply changed political calculations but still advantaged the government. With all of the (baseless) talk of a possible early election here, I felt like it was an appropriate time to remind everyone of what a sham our fixed election law really is anyway, and why it deserves to be repealed.