I found this to be a very common-sense column by the Toronto Star's Carol Goar:

An excerpt:

It's not surprising that pollsters are finding little appetite — outside Ottawa — for a spring federal election.

Canadians spent $247 million to go to the ballot box less than a year ago. Political blood sport may be fun for campaign strategists and diehard partisans, but for taxpayers it is a costly indulgence.

An onslaught of attack ads, smear tactics and hand-wringing about voter apathy might strike pundits and pollsters as an invigorating rite of spring. Most citizens have other tastes.

The electorate's options haven't really changed. The Liberals look somewhat grimier than they did last year; the Conservatives look slightly smoother; the Bloc Québécois looks a good deal cockier and the New Democrats look a trifle more polished. But most signs point to a replay of the last campaign.

Here's Linda McQuaig's take:

... A snap election almost surely won't get to the root of the corruption unveiled through the Gomery inquiry. Worse, a snap election may actually create the illusion — as in 1993 — that the problem is being addressed and dealt with, when it's not.

The problem runs much deeper than a particular set of characters. It has to do with a political system that places inadequate controls over politicians when it comes to money.

And here's Rick Anderson's:

The sponsorship scandal goes to the heart of Liberal self-satisfaction: the notion that their ends are your ends, that the Natural Governing Party knows what's best for you. And, when you doubt that, that they are entitled to twist your arms and spend your money convincing you otherwise.

In other words, Adscam is about the dark side of Liberalism, about arrogance, about self-aggrandizement and self-entitlement.

And so, it is about politics, not just about criminality and waste. That part — the judging of political matters — will not be put to Gomery and the courts. That job is yours. Elections are where you do it.

Whether the election comes this spring or this fall is less important than what it must accomplish, which is a clean-up and a fresh mandate for a forward-looking government with a constructive agenda.

If we could accomplish that, sooner is better.