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I heard on the news this morning that the Liberals narrowly averted a non-confidence vote yesterday. I heard this on Jack FM, so there was a bit of colour thrown in for good measure. The DJ in question who was reading the news made a guess that no party was quite ready to send us voters back to the polls so soon after an election (and risk our wrath, no doubt). Wait a few more months and we'll see what happens. Minority governments in Canada never last more than eighteen months, and most seem to last less than a year. Martin's been in for only what -- four months? He's still got a little while before he gets ousted (and I'm fairly confident it will happen before his term is up, although I wouldn't put it past the sly son of a bitch to stretch out his term for a record length as a minority government leader).

Besides, Martin still needs a bit of time to hang himself for one of the other parties to step forward and have a chance of winning a federal election. Not that I want to see the Reform ... er, Canadian Alliance ... er, I mean Conservative Party get into power. The religious wrong (as opposed to right) isn't really my cup of tea.