Congratulations, Parliamentarians...!

Frat-boy shenanigans in Canada's House of Commons has rather unsettled startled Canadians who in their innocence, thought that they had elected sober intelligent adults to sit in Parliament and enact sound legislation for the furtherance of the country's agenda. Instead, as matters now stand after a week of uncontrolled pandemonium, the results of an Ekos poll informs us that three quarters of the Canadian public confess to being "scared", if not downright scarred by recent events.

Which saw the opposition parties taking full leave of their senses, in mock outrage at the laxity of the Conservative-led government in attacking the needs of this country's economy under threat of financial collapse, head on. A pre-planned outrage that would have taken place sooner or later, to bring down the House in a vote of non-confidence simply awaiting opportunity. Even the opposition, though, didn't anticipate that Prime Minister Harper would hand them their opportunity so rashly.

Flicking his contempt for them directly in their money-grubbing eyeballs, and in the process demonstrating amply his own unfortunate failings. We know he's fundamentally a decent man; simply that he has this nasty mean streak that keeps popping up from time to time, when he forgets to tamp it down, responsibly. So here we are, disaster temporarily diverted to another day hence. Leaving, as the poll states, Canadians truly alarmed at their country's state of political instability.

Good one, fellas. The electorate is "gripped by fear", we're informed. I'm not fearful, just livid, exasperated, irritated beyond contempt, that our parliamentarians could and would submit to stooping to such low tactics. Hey, we just had an election, people voted, indicating solid support for the Conservatives to lead this country in another minority government, for the nonce.

How do the coalition leaders feel, now that the polls tell us that 56% of Canadians would prefer facing another election, re-visiting the polls less than two months since the original of October 14 - rather than consent to the Liberals, NDP and Bloc forming a 'coalition' government of the unentitled. They're bitterly resentful of one another at the best of times, a coalition would spell the worst of times, and we simply won't have it.

Shove it, Stephane Dion, in the deepest, darkest, dankest place you personally know of. And while you're at it, shove off the scene altogether. Take your good friend Bob Rae with you, let Jack Layton tag along, and then Gilles Duceppe can go chortling back to Quebec during this interregnum, while our justly chastened (he'd better be) prime minister works industriously with his Cabinet and advisers to put together an all-party-acceptable budget.

You've done this, with your personal ambition to be prime minister, even for a few months; had you succeeded you would have taken a nasty place in this country's history. You still will no; was it worth it? What a question, rhetorical since you're obviously not in your right mind, questionably balanced at any time. But what can explain the conundrum of all those other Liberals so complacently following their leader?

However, the Conservatives are grateful to you for your efforts on their behalf. Their support among the electorate has risen significantly. A new Leger Marketing poll also consolidates the data coming out of the Ekos poll. Whose survey marks out the alarm felt throughout the country at the potential of a separatist party wagging the dogged determination of the Liberals.

If that's not enough to demonstrate the utter folly of your ambitious ploy for personal ascent to a position you're not fit to hold, another survey by the Innovative Research Group also indicates a rise in voters' consideration for the Conservatives, while support for the Liberals has descended to where it should be at this time, in the dungeon.

There, the message is in, and geared specifically for the Liberal party to ingest and ponder. Canadians aren't about to sign onto the illegitimacy of feverishly unbecoming "backroom" scheming to unseat a newly installed government they streamed to their voting stations - in however insufficient numbers - to elect. Oh, and by the way, statistics also indicate, in case you hadn't noticed, that a clear majority of Canadians are easy with the removal of taxpayer funding for political parties.

Take that dunce hat you've been handed, hand several others out to your cronies and sit there, you glum trio of failed putsch-leaders.