You know, this whole episode is just making me more and more cynical about our political process. Not a single party leader is behaving even remotely well here; Harper, for being both partisan and dumb enough to trigger this mess, Dion and Layton for being so mercenary and power-hungry that they'd get into bed with the Bloc, the Bloc for being the Bloc...

Unless this is all a cunning Harper plan to leave the Liberals and NDP in the driver's seat while the economy tanks, while simultaneously making them appear like the greedy opportunistic sleaze they are, so that when things fall to pieces and we wind up at the polls again in another few months, everybody will be so disgusted with the coalition that the Tories will finally get their majority. Or maybe I just need Thorazine.