No sooner did I post the entry below than Gilles Duceppe announced that the Bloc would support the government on the upcoming vote, saying that the changes to the proposed legislation are what they've been demanding all along. Good posture, given that there is nothing for them to gain in an election. So this leaves Ignatieff high and dry with his huff'n and puff'n to defeat the government, his "report card" on Harper's performance, and so forth. You don't learn parliamentary politics in the Halls of Academe. He is about as adept as his predecessor Dion. Poor Canada.