As a wise man (or woman) once said, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.

Fact: The sky is blue:

Canadian voters who bought into that whole "hidden agenda" fairy tale about the federal Tories seem to be awakening to the fact that they were fed a load of nonsense during two election campaigns.

For the third time in less than a week a major public opinion poll has shown Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives riding a wave of support and opening a wide gap in popularity over the Liberals.

SES is the latest agency to weigh in on the question of party standings. In a poll prepared for Sun Media, SES says 38% of us would choose the Conservatives if a vote were held today, compared with 28% who would vote Liberal and 19% NDP.

There has been a huge swing in Atlantic Canada, where 37% say they'd now vote Tory -- a 9-point jump from three months earlier.

Whatever the colour of the sky is in Cindy Sheehan's world, it certainly isn't Tory blue:

By many accounts, Stephen Harper was put in place as leader of Canada by the collapse of weak coalitions and scandals that led to this man now leading a minority government there. He is wildly unpopular from coast to coast up north and there is a growing sense of unease about his emulation of a very unpopular person in the USA but even more in Canada: George Bush.

Now Canadians need to wake up to the fact that their new minority, disliked government is leading them down this same slippery slope to the fascistic militarism of their immediate neighbors to the south.

Worse yet for Cindy Sheehan, Canadians are still supportive of the Canadian effort in Afghanistan, even though everyone knows it is not a peacekeeping mission.

Here again is the sky as it is:

Support among Canadians for the country's military mission in Afghanistan has slipped but is still relatively solid despite a rash of recent military casualties, according to a new poll on Friday.

The Ekos survey -- provided to Reuters -- shows 62 percent of Canadians support the mission in Afghanistan, down from 70 percent in early February. The number opposed grew to 37 percent from 28 percent.

"In some ways, what is most remarkable here is how robust support for the mission has proven to be," said Ekos President Frank Graves.

"After all, for the first time in many years, Canadians are seeing significant casualties among their armed forces," he said in a statement.

And the sky some weird shade of...who knows?

The recent polls in Canada show that the people there are starting to wake up by the truckloads with support for their administration's support of BushCo's war slipping 14 percentage points in two months! Canadians are seeing that the war in Afghanistan is not righteous and that when Canada sends troops there, it frees American troops to be illegally and immorally deployed to Iraq. Canada needs a Cindy Sheehan to go to the PM's residence and demand to know what noble cause her child died for, or is still fighting for.

See, when you insert what are clearly fabrications into a piece that otherwise has some points to make that are worthy of debate, well, the whole thing is tainted. Did Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor sign the NORAD extension with sufficient debate in Parliament, for example, as she suggests? You might make an argument that the implications weren't discussed thoroughly enough (I'm not saying that is the case, but it is a plausible argument).

But it's hard to take anything Cindy Sheehan says seriously while she suffers from a serious disconnect from reality. The Conservative government is doing remarkably well, as poll after poll shows. Support for Canadian troops and their mission is solid, though people are justifiably concerned. If Cindy Sheehan wants to recapture her position as an influential representative of the anti-war left, she has to stop hanging out with the anti-war leftists. It's paradoxical, but true. The more time she spends outside of the echo chamber into which she has locked herself, the better the chance she will see the world as it really is. Then when she speaks, people are more likely to taker her seriously.

Of course, the danger is that once she sees the sky is really blue, she might not mind it so much.

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