...Depressing.

That's what the last couple of weeks in Canadian Politics has been for me. Basically, every single person involved did quite likely the *wrong* thing:

• Harper, filling the financial update with partisan poison pills, grossly underestimating how the opposition would react.
• Dion, not immediately stepping down, not realizing that Canadians' dislike for the coalition concept rests hugely on the prospect of Dion as PM.
• The GG, for allowing Harper to prorogue ( although I can hardly blame her )
• Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff, for not immediately flipping a coin, burying the hatchet and moving on with one of them installed as leader, the other as deputy.

My advice of the last two is to get *ON* that shit, tout suite, and maybe the coalition might be salvageable. Even better, if those two worked together during an election in March, they might even win.

My advice to the coalition members when faced with the prospect of an election is: start NOW, and co-operate, and figure out how to compete in BC, suburban southern Ontario and Montreal. Specifically, I think the Liberals should bow out of strategic ridings in the lower mainland and Vancouver Island that are currently Conservative seats largely guide to vote splitting. I might even crunch some numbers and figure out which ones those are...