New fears of sedition

Stephen Harper, Dec. 1. "I would certainly not want to find myself governing this economy today in a situation that required me to follow socialist economics and to be at the behest of a veto of the separatists."

James Moore, heckling Gilles Duceppe, Dec. 1. "Traitor!"

Stephen Harper, Dec. 2. "The Canadian people made a choice to elect the Conservative Party to govern, without the support of the separatists."

Dean Del Mastro, heckling Jack Layton, Dec. 3. "Jack, you’re a traitor."

Stephen Harper, Dec. 3. "The Liberal Party leader proposes to help the economy by signing a pact with the Quebec sovereignists to govern the country. This is not a plan to improve the economy; it is a plan to destroy this country, which is why he should withdraw his proposal."

Canadian Press, tonight. "The Harper government has sketched out a road map that would see it avoid an election in this recession year and survive to bask in the glory of the 2010 Olympic Games ... The Tories need to stave off defeat in confidence votes until then and are considering ways to secure support from the NDP and Bloc Quebecois on a case-by-case basis ... The Bloc will table its own list of economic demands Thursday, and they have been pushing for EI changes as well as a tax-harmonization deal for Quebec ... One senior Conservative said there will be plenty of ways for the parties to work together. ’We’re hopeful they’d want to work with us. ... Maybe cooler heads will prevail,’ he said."