While you focus on unity in your final paragraph, you are opposed to allowing a democratically elected party exercise its constitutional rights as a political party. Whether you believe in the BQ’s politics or not, they were elected by Canadians. To fuel the rhetoric propagated by Harper and others within the Conservative party does nothing but create a larger schism between Quebec and the rest of Canada. I fear Harper has done more harm to that relationship in the last 2 months than anyone else has done in years.

So yes…I agree this was not the right time for a coalition for a myriad of reasons. I also think we would be smart to avoid further disenfranchising the democratically elected party in Quebec…

Cheers

The proposed coalition has a great deal more to do with ensuring the fiscal well-being of those parties not currently in power than it does with addressing any loss of confidence in the conservatives on the part of parliament or the public – or so it seems to me. But that’s not the reason I’m so concerned.

For me the distinction between a coalition in concept, and the one that has been proposed is that the proposed one relies upon a political party which exists specifically to destroy my country. I think that anything that serves to empower, legitimize or invigorate the Bloc represents a serious threat to Canadian unity – and it is for that reason that I am so strongly opposed to it.