on last night’s debate. “What a bunch of braying jackasses. What a pathetic embarrassment, the lot of them.” Bingo.

I watched the Canadian Leaders’ Debates in English last night and was thoroughly depressed by the whole thing. Reuters Canada says that Paul Martin came under fierce sustained attack from opposition party leaders, which is only partially true. The attacks were there, certainly, but they really missed the mark, and don’t seem to have been very impactful.

More interesting was the overall confusion that reigns at the moment. Gilles Duceppe, my MP and the leader of the separatist BQ, was actually pretty good in the debate. The problem is he has one clear ally on one prop of his party (provincial rights) and another ally that corresponds to the BQ’s other concerns (social welfare). The two are anathema to one another, however.

Meanwhile, the NDP has managed to convince itself that they stand a chance to win the most seats in Parliament and so last night the leader, Jack Layton, was railing at both Liberal and Conservative leaders to quit being so arrogant – all the while coming off as the most arrogant, personally, of all of them.

Harper, for his part, is clearly a bald-faced, homophobic, gynophobic, prostrate-before-America liar.

Paul Martin? Poor Paul Martin. Clearly he has been and continues to be very poorly advised. But I’m not going to cry a river for a super-rich second-generation politician who, above all, has allowed bad advice to plague his camp due to an overarching sense of entitlement he has to the office of Prime Minister.

Screw them all, I’m voting Green.