Angry in the Great White North

Rumours are continuing to fly around that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is engineering the defeat of his government in order to have an election to start in late May.

Stephane Dion, leader of the Liberal Party, has a warning for Stephen Harper:

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said yesterday he had no doubt Harper was spoiling for an election, but he warned there are perils in trying to play both provincial and federal politics.

"Quebecers are very politically sophisticated and we can tell the difference between what's at stake at the provincial level and what's at stake at the federal level," Dion said, repeatedly using "we" when he talked of Quebec, to underline the difference between himself and the Alberta MP who is prime minister.

Funny, Stephane Dion is talking like one of the Bloc Quebecois guys. "We" Quebeckers. "You" not Quebeckers.

So is the Albertan Stephen Harper unsophisticated compared to "we" Queneckers? By extension, is anyone who isn't a Quebecker unsophisticated? Does the status as a political rube drop away once a person makes his permanent residence in Quebec? Or is that sort of sophistication something that is bred in the bones of native-born Quebeckers only?

These are hard question to answer. Too hard for me. Maybe a Keebecker can help this dumb ol' Cuhnadjun with this hard...political...stuff.