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Stefan Dion, lame duck and often mocked leader of the Liberal Party of Canada who led his party to one of it’s worst performances in decades in the most recent election is poised to potentially become our next Prime Minister.

There is debate about how realistic this possiblity is but safe to say, he is much, much closer to realizing that goal than he was a few short weeks ago following the election.

In a very short period of time, Stephen Harper has managed to galvinize the opposition parties to the point that there are serious discussions about the formation of an NDP-Liberal coalition government, which would be supported by the Bloc Quebecois. That’s right, even the seperatists are so annoyed, they’d rather try option B.

Now the Conservatives are crying foul saying that shady back room deals shouldn’t overthrow a government that was elected by the people mere weeks ago. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you formed the government with  37 percent of the popular vote, then the actual will of the people was that you didn’t form the government.

In fact, the NDP and Liberal combined vote surpasses that of the Conserative Party, so a coalition government could argue that they are a truer representation of the people than Harper and his gang. I’m not sure how likely this reality is, but it sure makes for interesting times.

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