Sleeping with the enemy

I have always respected dion as a federalist. Now I see that even federalism plays a back seat to the grits clawing for power. The people of Quebec and the rest of Canada should understand ho little the grits care about Canada. Though I still think this unlikely, there would have to be a formal agreement with the separatists if this coup d'etat is going to happen.

Canoodling with separatists
Norman Spector, today at 8:40 AM EST
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As Ned Franks points out in today's Globe and Mail — and contrary to the position expressed by Prime Minister Harper yesterday — it would be perfectly constitutional for the Governor-General to refuse a request by Prime Minister Harper to dissolve the House of Commons and call an election. For this to happen, however, “the three opposition parties would have to produce a written agreement guaranteeing support for a Liberal government or a Liberal-NDP coalition.” Mr. Franks, one of our leading constitutional scholars, also says that the agreement would have to be made public and it would have to specify that it remained in effect for a set period of time.