Peter T wrote: "Boy, Stephen Harper is even more of a slime than I thought. To save his hide, he's turned this into a West-East separatist issue: break up the country why don't you Stephen, known to posterity as "Wrecker of His Country"."

That's spot-on, Peter! Harper is deflecting the issue of the government's complete lack of confidence in his ability to handle the economic crisis (not to mention the fact that he was caught red-handed spying on the NDP) by turning around and basically saying "Hey, everyone, look! Scary separatists!! OOOOH!!!"

This is not about Quebec. This is about an ego-tripping power-hungry man who will stop at nothing in his quest to completely re-construct the nature of Canada's parliamentary democracy into a tool for forwarding a conservative, uber-capitalist, republican agenda.

And, by the way, I think he's making the West look bad too.

The Lorax.