Games, political games, opportunistic games. Maybe Ottawa’s main players are just prepping us for the great drama of hockey season, but this week’s politics have the national media salivating over which deliciously ironic scenario to comment on first.
And not only CanWest papers are reveling in the furor created by the Quebec-nation question. Even CNN took notice when Stephen Harper proclaimed, to the delight of some and the wild-eyed frustration of others, that Quebecers can now be recognized for what they truly are. Folks, the Conservatives have made it official: the Quebecois form a nation.
It’s created some bizarre bedfellows, too. No doubt to the consternation of Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc had to follow suit to the NDP and Liberals and back Harper’s motion. Here’s the kicker, though. Who could have predicted Harper was actually a secret agent campaigning for Michael Ignatieff? It’s true. I heard it on CNN.
When Iggy popped the question of re-opening the constitution debate five weeks ago, his handlers and campaign managers probaby wanted to either stay home with acute stomach flu or start choking on their own tongues trying to talk him down from his soapbox.
Some of Iggy’s groupies likely walked over to St