I can only imagine how Stephen Harper must be feeling, as he looks down on the smouldering ruins of his beloved Harperland.
Once he towered over it, and crushed all who opposed him.
One moment he was in total control.
And the next moment he wasn't...
Dan Murphy
And what must make it even worse, make it feel even more like the fall of Rome, is the knowledge that in the end even his faithful stooge Jason Kenney did betray him.
As you know the Harper regime has expended a huge amount of energy pandering to the so-called ethnic vote.
And nobody more than Jason Kenney, the man they call Mr Curry in a Hurry, who likes to jet across the country hitting every religious festival and ethnic banquet between St John's and Victoria.
In relentless pursuit of the ethnic vote, wherever he can find one. At the buffet table, or in a stairwell bearing a pizza.
So I can't help but think that this move by Justin Trudeau must have felt like a kick in the stomach.
If there was any doubt that Stephen Harper is going for an early election, maybe even sooner than most people imagine, now there can be none.
For not only is he rushing his flawed prostitution bill through Parliament.
One of Parliament’s most high-profile bills appears set to become law without major changes – as one senator says the committee considering Bill C-36, aimed at reining in the sex trade, is “highly unlikely” to call for changes.
Even though it would make the lives of sex workers even more dangerous, and is almost certainly unconstitutional.
He's also stepping up his plans to declare war on the unions.
