Parliament funkadelic

Sitting in class today, my professor said something interesting. Swear to god. I almost fell out of my chair, but fortunately my desk was designed for a little person, so I was wedged in pretty well.

He was talking about the canadian government, and how they are undergoing a new election, and mentioned that in a lot of ways their form of elections is better than ours. He was saying this because elections in Canada actually end, as opposed to here, where we are still debating the 2000 Florida results.

Canadia, much like England, follow a Parliamentary gov't. What that means I'm not sure. What I do have is a rough idea of how their elections work. From what I understand, the Prime Minister is basically the leader of the majority party, and has to call for an election periodically. They can do this whenever they want, but there is a time limit. So... When a prime minister is very popular, they might call an election so as to not have to call an election when they were in more of a down turn. For example, now would not be the right time for GW the stupider to call for an election.

When the Prime Minister calls for an election, there is 5 weeks of campaigning, and then an election. I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but Hillary Clinton started campaigning during Kerry's disastrophy, and John McCain only took a brief timeout after losing to GW in the 2000 primaries. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have just 5 weeks to deal with their horseshit before we voted on them? I mean, does two years of open campaigning help anybody? Really all that accomplishes is that only the truly rich can win an election.

When they talk about election reform, how come ideas like this never come up?