Ontario Elections - Missing the Big Issue

It is amazing to me, listening to all the rhetoric coming from the various political parties leading up to the Ontario Provincial election. Sometimes the Conservatives sound more liberal than the Liberals, and the Liberals sound more conservative than the Conservatives. There doesn't seem to be anything like a party political philosophy any more. It's all about the issue du jour. I'm sure There are other, way more articulate political scientists who can better elucidate this than I. But that's not the main topic I'm all up about today.

What gets me the most right now is how I sit there, barely moving, in rush hour traffic every day on the way home from work, listening to John Torie blunder about, trying to find his platform. He makes a bold statement about faith-based schools, and tries to make it a prime election issue. Then he receives the bite from people about it - even to the point of a serious threat to his own seat. Now he starts backpedalling. Next along comes Dalton "empty promises" McGuinty, rambling about with a bunch of equally contrived issues. I'm sure I speak for a lot of Ontarians when I say "oh sure Dalton".

In any case, the whole time I'm listening to this, I'm sitting there on a jammed up 400-series highway (apparently one of the 3 most gridlocked expressway systems on earth) that gets worse and worse every year, struggling to get home safely and in anything resembling a reasonable timeframe. And I don't hear even the slightest mention of an effort to address gridlock! What is going on?!?! There have got to be a lot of other people like me. I'm so disillusioned with the main parties that I'm probably going to vote Green party this time around. But if they would just once get on something that actually matters, they might get my vote.
- faith-based schools?
- ankle-bracelets?
Honestly, you guys are not reaching your electorate. These are minor issues affecting a small percentage of people. Get on something that is already sticking in everyone's craw! Our highways are so frustrating I'm sure someone could win an election on a gridlock-fixing promise. {sigh} even if it was an empty one...