The 300 million dollar elephant in the room

Over the past four elections (2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008), Canadians have been on the hook for expenses of 200.6, 277, 270, and 288.2 million dollars respectively. Also, the 2008 election had an additional expense of 3.5 million for canceling scheduled by-elections.
Now, we stand at the brink of another election only one year after the last, due to the House's inability to work together. At some point, we, the people, need to start objecting to the needless wasting of hundreds of millions of dollars. By calling a snap election to try to steal a majority, Steven Harper's conservatives could end up costing Canadians $600 million between this year and last, or roughly 1/2 the amount of their economic stimulus package (estimated at 1.237 billion dollars).
It is easy to blame Harper on this one...he has run both Dion and Ignatieff's names through the mud over the past year...he plagiarized a speech about Armed Forces from Australia's former Prime Minister (and said that it wasn't a big deal)...he has constantly terrorized the Canadian public into fearing his opposition...
And yet, despite all these negatives, the other side has a monster of a negative against them...they've held the house hostage since Christmas using the Canadian populace as collateral. The weird thing about this, is that it has been a brilliant idea (forcing the Conservatives to be accountable for their actions for the first time since they've taken power). The problem arose late last week, when Mr. Ignatieff and Mr. Layton both announced that they were done co-operating with the Conservatives...Steven Harper has co-operated with everything they have forced him to do, but suddenly they can't work with him? How does this make sense?
And suddenly that elephant is starting to stir...if the Liberals and NDP are going to make public comments about not supporting Harper, he may attempt something stupid to intentionally have parliament broken...with the control he has over the media, we might not even find out what the vote that topples the government is for...and even if we do, it probably won't matter because Harper has been the one trying to carry on, whereas the Liberals and NDP have been trying to manipulate their way into every inch of spotlight they can get...
Which leads to the point...a government is supposed to lead the nation. But what happens when all the people at the top act with the same amount of maturity as kindergarteners...this is the dilemna that we as a nation face, as we roll towards another farce of an election...there is no leader worthy of our vote, yet no one could run against the big 3 and win, due to our political system...last election (2008), 59.1 percent of the population voted, the lowest total in the history of the nation...if we have a new election, expect that number to be eclipsed since Ignatieff is as immature as Dion was, and Harper and Layton are both still at the top of the totem pole...