Belinda Stronach Defects to Liberal Party

- What does this mean for Peter MacKay?

- Belinda tries to re-inforce she's a conservative, but that her decision is largely based around her fear of Quebec seperation. What a dimwit. She has no idea what she just did.

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This will probably destroy the conservatives in Ontario. The Conservatives are at 31% in Ontario now, I bet they drop to 21% by next week over the perception of this.

When I moved back to Canada two years ago, I came in with a blaze of patriotism. I think I just lost that. I think I'm now second guessing how I define myself.

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Despite my self-imposed moratorium, I have to ask -- why hasn't Harper responded to this? He should have bloody well been ready with his press conference within seconds of the Belinda-Martin lovefest ending, downplaying the whole bloody thing.

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Belinda is so going to run for leader of the Liberal Party.

Sell out.

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HARPER NEWS CONFERENCE:

Stephen Harper states that Belinda Stronach's primary ambition was the leadership of the party.

Harper takes a lot of swipes at Belinda's integrity.

He also seems to suggest that Peter MacKay dumped Belinda over this decision, and that it was Peter who informed him of her decision -- this morning, not last week, like Belinda seemed to suggest. He also states that MacKay has sworn his alliance to the party, despite this, and that he is "very hurt" by what she has done.

Harper also takes shots at Danny Williams, premier of Newfoundland.

"Belinda never gave us any indication of her intention to vote against the party, or for the government."

Harper Angry Factor (HAF): 110%

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Boy, was Harper mad. He seemed to have choice-words for virtually everybody and everything he was questioned about.

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Belinda, you're worried what might happen with the Bloc picking up more seats in a spring election? You better be double-worried by the f*cking backlash from Quebec voters when -- with your help -- the Liberals are returned to power.

You are helping the very party which has put us both in a sovereignty crisis, and in what appears to be amounting to a constitutional crisis in our parliamentary system.

I don't think your "soul searching" wasn't very deep. No, I recken it was shallow and plain. Much like you. Face it, all the time you spent contemplating away these past few days was figuring out how you could spin this without appearing like a backstabbing, untrustworthy, sell-out.

I'm so spending a lot of time in Newmarket-Aurora this time around.