Whoa !!! what is happening here ??

6 weeks ago Canadians went to the polls and elected yet another minority Government. Nothing wrong with that I say....history shows that minority Governments can be quite functional indeed.

But this election has left the Opposition Liberal Party scrambling in that its leader Stephan Dione has now agreed to step down in light of his poor performace in the recent election.

Yesterday the Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, delivered his economic update to the House of Commons. What you have to understand is that the ruling Conservative Party has some sort of an undosclosed far-right agenda which has not been clearly spelled out, but which tends to reveal itself in bits and pieces. In his economic update, one of these so called pieces revealed itself. After saying that the Government will cut back on various programs and sell various assets to avoid running up a deficit in 2009, it was revealed that the Government is going to put a halt to funding political parties with taxpayer dollars. Political parties will have to solicit private donations and corporate donations - if they can. Now that's what I call a far-right agenda. Cripple your opponents ability to fund himself and your Party can rule forever !!

Needless to say, the Opposition parties are screaming like Thanksgiving Turkeys as the butcher shapens his axe.

Expect to hear plenty in the weeks to come about Canada having to adopt a coalition style Government. I will have to do my homework, but I do think that this has only ever happened once before in Canadian history and that was 100 or so years ago.

Keep your eyes on Canada. We are headed into uncharted waters.....