Well, that's basically what voting has been boiled down to, and the goddamn Family Compact predicted that "democracy" would go exactly that way.

And yeah, Canadian politics IS pretty sad, and always has been. And they're very predictable as well. Unless a PM screws up really badly, or carries the taint of its predecessor (Kim Campbell, Joe Who? and Paul Martin Jr, for instance), they generally get 10 years before we get sick of them and vote for the other party (and gods forbid the Nothing But Dirty Pakis party gets in ...)