"Stéphane Dion and André Boisclair both in trouble. What's it all mean?"
One is tempted to say "nothing," but that's not really allowed.
One is tempted to say that the Canadian anglophone media establishment really dislikes left-wing Quebeckers, but that's not a particularly satisfying answer.
One is tempted to say that Canadians are often complacent about their progressivism, and allow a minority of conservative voices in business and the punditry to dictate the tone and pace of national debate to the detriment of the aforementioned leaders, but that's essentially the same response as answer number two.
One is tempted to say that Canadians now yearn for an unheralded era of freedom, capitalism and neoconservative opportunity, along with strong right-wing leaders with authoritarian tendencies and neo-fascist family-values policies - but that's possibly sensationalist, and possibly also wrong.
One is tempted to say (and many have said it) that Stephen Harper is one of the most strategically focused, and unscrupulously opportunistic, Prime Ministers that this country has ever seen, and that Jean Charest never met a strategic, unscrupulous opportunist he didn't recognize from the bathroom mirror.
One is tempted to say, metaphorically, that we as Canadians are a bit at sea at the moment - gasping and sputtering for air while simultaneously pushing people off the boat, letting the boiler run out of control, drilling holes in the hull, and throwing tomatoes at the people trying to hand out the life-jackets.
One is tempted to say that it's all about a little bit of all of the above. One might even be half-right.
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