Maclean’s columnist Paul Wells makes a curious but plainly accurate observation over at his blog Inkless Wells, regarding the recently tabled federal budget:

Last spring I wrote a column arguing, tongue in cheek, that Liberals and Conservatives were already running a coalition government. Andrew [Coyne] wrote a column more recently, suggesting more seriously that they give such a thing a try. This budget is clearly designed to form the basis for a Conservative-Liberal coalition de facto.

So we Canadians will probably end up with a coalition, just not the one everyone had been either hoping for, fearing, or giggling about. The thing is, that’s pretty much the government we’ve been requesting, and getting (and giggling about), for the past quarter century. Read More