OH CANADA!

What an amazing turn of events. Here we are, arguably one of the very best countries in the world to live in. And what are we doing to it? Or, more to the point what is our Federal Government doing with it? Fighting with each other like small schoolyard bullies to see who is going to be Top Dog! It's pure madness.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, having called an illegal election which no one wanted just a little over a month ago at a cost to the taxpayers of millions of dollars at a critical time when the world is in economic crisis having been narrowly re-elected by a negligible 34% of the population to yet another minority government, has now created another artificial crisis with the ramifications being that Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is gleefully going for his jugular and has set in motion a very bizarre situation in which the Liberals, headed by a hugely unpopular and outgoing Stephanne Dion, the New Democratic Party headed by Jack Layton, and - wait for it, here comes the clincher - the Separatist leader of the Bloc Nationale, that wily fox, Gilles Duceppe whose sole function in life is to see to the dismantling of Canada as we know it, have conspired to form a coalition to bring down Harper's government.

Machiavelli would be proud! If it weren't so pathetic it would be farcical. Now everybody is furious, not least we, the Canadian people. Governer General Mikael Jean who was on a European trip, to lend further intrigue, just happens to be married to a man who was in tight with the Quebec Separatists in another life. Makes for some interesting times. Jean has cut short her trip and is on her way back to Ottawa in time to be served with the request for dissolution of Parliament on Monday. It gets better since she is going to be stuck with Hobson's Choice. Nice going!

One way or the other, we could very well be headed into another Federal Election while the ink hasn't even dried on the last one we just had. Further, Quebec is in the middle of an election and we are headed to the Polls on December 8th.

What's the problem, you may well ask? Wish I had a simple answer. It's about the economy, stupid! Economy, economy, economy...have I said it enough? ECONOMY! Well, the problem is that those Simple Serpents in Ottawa couldn't hold their noses long enough to find a loop hole wider than a barn door to step through to blast Stephen Harper's planned budget right out of the drink. Come to think of it, what are they drinking in the House of Commons these days? It isn't water.

This is a constitutional problem since that coalition that is seeking to become a triumvate Opposition Party opens up the the prospect of Duceppe's Bloc Nationale sovereignist party laying the stinkingest sulfuric rotten egg ever laid on an unsuspecting Canadian population. How sweet, the tail is going to wag the dog!

Only in Canada? Pity.