Harper is history?

Today's Editorial in the Globe is not one I agree with. Any government formed from the last election is based on a lead role for a Party that did not win a majority of seats in the House. The coalition merely changes who is the minority Party leading. That said, I can see that the situation will be difficult -- the put it mildly.

All that said, the Editorial does point out one fact -- Harper is probably history. (On the other hand, let's not bury the man before he's dead -- he may well have a trick or two left).

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

December 1, 2008

First Stephen Harper united the right; now he has succeeded in uniting the left. However much he backtracks from his horrendous miscalculations of last week's hyper-partisan economic update, the damage has been done. With yesterday's inking of a formal agreement among the Liberals, the New Democrats and the Bloc Québécois to defeat the Conservatives next Monday, Canada is careering toward an experimental and unstable government at the time it can least afford one. Thank you, Mr. Harper.

To leave Canada's response to a global economic crisis in the hands of an opportunistic coalition of also-rans led by Stéphane Dion is to invite great risk. With the opposition poised to defeat the Conservative government in less than a week's time, it may require great selflessness – if not from Mr. Dion, then on the part of Mr. Harper – to prevent it.