This is what you get, Conservative leader Stephen Harper, when you pin your hopes of winning power on sucking up to wingnuts and getting into bed with separatists instead of working on actual policy with a minority government that has not even been in power for a year: your star centrist glamor girl MP crosses the floor and joins the government. Oh, and did I add that this happened two days before Mr. Harper's attempted no-confidence vote (in partnership with the separatist Bloc Quebecois) on the budget to force an election? That's right--the Canadian Liberal-NDP temporary alliance just had its own Jim Jeffords moment, in an even bigger way. See below for an even sweeter part of the backstory....
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