Parliament is now shut down until January 26th and the new Conservative budget is to be unveiled on January 27th. Will it matter to the Coalition? Not according to Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe who have publicly stated that they are committed to bringing down the current government at all costs, while the Liberals are waffling. With all of the propaganda being spread around that the Coalition is doing all of this for the good of Canadians, this type of rhetoric is not exactly giving Canadians the warm and fuzzies. In fact polls show that Canadians have seen through this charade by 3 power hungry politicians who couldn’t get elected into power.

According the latest Ipsos-Reid poll:
•    Almost 75% of Canadians say they are “truly scared” for the future of the country.
•    A solid majority say they would prefer another election to having the minority Conservative government replaced by a coalition led by Stephane Dion.
•    Almost seven in 10 of those surveyed last Tuesday and Wednesday agreed with the actions of the Governor General.
•    6 in 10 Canadians believe that the Conservatives are the best managers of the economy in these troubling times.
•    60% of those interviewed said they opposed replacing the government with Liberal-NDP coalition supported by the Bloc Quebecois, compared with 37% who favoured the idea. Support for the coalition was highest in Quebec at 50%, followed by 44% in Atlantic Canada.
•    56% said they would rather go to the polls than be governed by the coalition.
•    Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives would have a majority victory with a record 46% public support if an election were held today.

The coalition is now starting to fight among themselves. The Liberals are calling for the immediately resignation of Stephane Dion. If Canadians clearly demonstrated at the election that they refused to accept Dion as their leader what would make the Coalition believe that they could ram him down our throats as the Prime Minister now? And now the in-fighting for a replacement begins. The turmoil may not end when Parliament resumes. In the meantime, let the games begin!