Angry in the Great White North

From CKNW news via email:

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says he will issue fall economic statement tomorrow.

Will this be the GST cut? Despite months of staking out the position that a GST cut would hurt Canada' poor, Stephane Dion has already said that he would not bring down the government over a GST cut promised by the Conservatives.

So the Conservatives have to think that creating a situation in which Stephane Dion has to allow a government action to pass that he opposes in order to avoid an election will sow even more discontent within the Liberal Party.

But what if it is a trap? Why would Stephane Dion have conceded the GST-cut vote even before any legislation was actually presented? Is it to entice the Conservatives to offer up a cut, and then bring the Tories down?

I'm bored with Stephane Dion being described as an ineffectual leader. For a break from our regular programming, I'm going to hold to the theory that inasmuch as the GST cut is concerned, Stephane Dion has been cleverly playing the Conservatives for fools. We'll see tomorrow if Jim Flaherty has fallen for it.