All this discussion and arguing back and forth is moot...
The way I see it, this is what is going to happen and I don't think there can be much done to change it:
1. PM Harper will go to the Governor General tomorrow or Friday and ask her to prorogue parliament until late January 2009.
2. She will agree to do that.
3. Parliament will reconvene in late January 2009 and the Conservatives will put forward a new budget full of all sorts of goodies and spending initiatives to get the economy back on track.
4. The budget will look so good, that it will pass. At least one of the coalition parties will vote in favor of it.
5. Shortly after the budget is passed, at the first opportune moment, one of the coalition parties will initiate a vote of non-confidence.
6. The Conservatives will be defeated by the still in-effect coalition.
7. Harper will then go to the GG and ask her to disolve parliament and call an election.
8. The coalition will go to the GG and say: Don't disolve parliament. We are prepared to form a government.
9. Now Canada's fate is in the hands of the Governor General.
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