and suddenly the comment boards lit up

I don’t know, when the Prime Minister of Canada tells everyone a hundred times how he anticipates the outcome of the next election, I just can’t resist writing it down. Kinda nutty. Anyway, here’s my column from the print edition, in which I parse Jim Flaherty’s barn-burner speech and some recent Harper remarks to re-ignite — yet again! — the old Conservatives-vs.-coalition debate.