Lord help us all...

Roughly six weeks ago, Canadians were asked to choose a direction for Canada, and they did so.

It was, admittedly, a vague response, but if the numbers were any guide, they said that they wished for Stephen Harper to continue to lead a government, but one that stressed cooperation with other parties.

Okay, and even though I am a partisan, I will readily admit that the vote subsidy plan, as well as the moratorium on the ability of public sector unions to strike was not good sandbox etiquette. Consequently, I agree that the decision to rescind those decisions was the right one.

Nevertheless, those suggestions were floated this week, while the scheme to deep-six the Harper government, if Jack Layton is to be believed, has a much longer pedigree. Clearly, it was the excuse de jour they were looking for.

So, what will we get?

Apparently, we will have the Liberals dominating a government after receiving their lowest share of the popular vote since 1867. We will also have a Prime Minister who has already tendered his resignation as party leader, and has no less than three people attempting to replace him before the snow melts.

We are told that 4 wise men will lead us through the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, but as none of them will come from the House or the Senate, they will be obstensibly outside the control of Parliament.

All of this is apparently being backstopped by a party whose sole purpose is the geographical and political vivisection of Canada.

The fiction that feeds this plot is that more people voted against the Conservatives than for them.

This is true, but that vote was split among different parties and platforms. The Liberal platform was not the NDP platform, was not the BQ platform, was not the Green platform.

Exactly what will be the platform that this cabal runs on? Will it be the Green Shift, or the NDP scheme, or do we just break up the country? What view prevails?

It is clear that the only economic security that the Opposition is looking for is the rise in pay that befits a member of the Cabinet.

Canadians want a leaders, not simply those who value their Liberal and NDP membership cards above their own citizenship.