Modeling Journey

The most important question our pollsters can ask us is not which party we might be voting for come May 2, or who is our second choice, or what leader grabs our favour at the moment, or whether it is policies or leaders who stir the cockles of our heart, or whether we are befuddled and cannot make up our minds right now.

It is none of these, but it is perhaps the most significant question that could be asked in the last week of this surprising, tumultuous and interesting 2011 election.

Significant, because the answers to this single question, revealed to voters daily over the coming week, could well in itself cause a change in voting patterns on May 2.

Significant, too, because this election is different: we are on the cusp of the first Canadian election which might result in a prime minister taking office through a vote and exercising dictatorial powers to an