Worse, this federal election has had to be one of the nastiest on record, with far too much focus on personalities rather than issues.
There were several reasons for that, with the most central being that the main focus throughout the election was on Conservative leader Stephen Harper.
As I said back when the election was called, the only real issue was Harper and what he wanted, not anything else.
That focus was so central to the Conservative's campaign that Harper was caught completely unaware by the greatest economic meltdown since 1929.
The only other reason the election was held was due to the fact that the Liberals, under the leadership of Stephane Dion, were at their historical weakest.
The shame of it all is that the issues that needed to be debated, such as the environment, Afghanistan, sustainable energy, urban development and crime were pushed, aside.
Instead, we had five people shouting "vote for me and everything will work - vote for them and everything will fail."
If there is one thing that was learned from this election, it is that currently we have no national party in Canada, only regional ones.
We have been split into a country made up of "them" and "us" where choice of party is now based on how they will protect "us" from "them".
Worse, the ideological choices presented to us have been dummied down to "tax cuts or more taxes" when selecting a party.
These divisions are beginning to take on very scary overtones of extremism, which did spilled over into violence, with cars and homes of Liberal supporters being vandalized in Toronto.
So, yes, there were shifts and changes, with the Liberals losing seats and the Conservatives and NDP gaining some.
Yet the only thing that changed that really mattered was the economy, which now hangs on how the United States manages its economic crisis.
Thanks to a high degree of government intervention and regulation in Canada, our financial institutions are more stable, but our jobs are not.
Whether one has a job a year from now, or if retired, can live on their pension, that is the big question facing the majority of Canadians.
So whose economic theory will stand the test of the economy as its true reality is revealed over the upcoming months?
Down in the United States we've seen an abandonment of neoconservative ideals for a government bail-out policy that is pure John Maynard Keynes.
That was exactly the same policy as was used by Bob Rae and his provincial NDP to save Ontario back in the 1990s, if anyone cares to remember.
The point is that the only political cure for our economic woes is one that nobody is going to like because it's going to hurt like heck.
And we're going to hate whoever administers it even more.