Sense of wonder

Randy Simms wonders why, with months to go until the general election, there had to be a by-election in Humber West.

It's really too bad Randy Simms didn't have his wondering cap on back in 2004. That's when Danny Williams-Government amended the House of Assembly Act to reduce — by a whopping 30 whole days! — the time-limit in which a by-election has to be called, yet without the addition of a sensible provision to cover off those cases where a vacancy occurs close to a general election.

It's not like no one never noticed this potential problem before...