Did Layton’s Ambition Overcome his Common Sense?

Lorne Gunter certainly thinks so:

First, he had a chance to do the Liberals in and replace them as the default selection on the left had he gone along with the Tories’ plan to end public funding to parties. Next to the Tories, the NDP have the best chance of replacing public handouts with private donations. Layton could have crippled the Liberals; instead he tried to vault himself into cabinet by riding into power as the Liberals’ shotgun.

Layton was exposed as a self-serving opportunist with no compunction about making a deal with separatists, even weeks before the Tories lit the match on the crisis.

And with the coalition’s demise, Layton is now even further from power than he was before.

Mark Steyn on the Coalition

Mark Steyn certainly has a way with words…

Quebec separatism is mostly one almighty bluff, a giant racket by which the francophone minority screws out of English Canada a hugely disproportionate share of the spoils. The Bloc Quebecois are separatists who have no interest in separating: no matter how wide you open the stable door, the flea-bitten old nag refuses to bolt. Granted all that, it’s weird to see the Liberals, until recently the most electorally successful party in the western world, reduced to climbing into bed with separatists and socialists.

Separatists in the Canadian Senate: Rumour

If this is true, it’ll be the move that will truly ignites western separatism:

Minister Cannon tells Mike Duffy that the latest rumour on the Hill has 6 separatists being appointed to the Senate under the coalition deal…