Nova Scotia about to Peter on the Mack in Green

So Elizabeth May and Stéphane Dion finally have their raison d'etre to defeat Peter Mackay and the federal Tories, the Atlantic Accord and its Cumberland-Colchester MP Bill Casey, all of these issues, plus non issues like waffler South Shore-St. Margaret’s MP Gerald Keddy, who backed his party over his region in last night's contentious budget implementation bill vote of 157 versus 103, thanks to Tory support from the Bloc Québécois and that was likely payback for Stephen Harper's Québécois notion motion late last fall.

One can easily see that the Atlantic East, not the Pacific West, is going to be the first region to spit and schism today's version of the great Tory majority coalition, as shared by both John A. Macdonald and Brian Mulroney, instead of looking to the Prairies for the change in the form of a second Reform party, people need to look to the Maritimes for that same change in the form of another Progressive one, though word is that an Atlantica Party has already been started, a regionalist party like the Bloc, looking out for the interests of its people and seeing that deals like the Atlantic Accord don't open up and stay shut.

The federal Conservatives have an obsessive disorder for order, control and secrecy, not just infecting the PMO and its Cabinet, but one that attacks its own party apparatus interntionally, this is the same kind of politics Mackay used in the East to promise his Progressive Conservatives a compromise with David Orchard to no avail, or Harper used in the West to promise his Alliance Reformers a return back to its roots and even Mulroney as he lied to everyone during his two terms and less than a decade in the big office.

That two Tory Premiers from out there are both about to get nipped if they don't remain angry over the lost accord, while the other two provinces in the Maritimes just went Liberal, shows that with an Atlantica Party or not, the regional will vote en bloc against the national party that broke their deal on equalization, with the Liberals or at least one protest vote in one riding for the Greens.

And with Saskatchewan getting ready to join the rank of the other 2 have provinces, the real thoughts remain why the 10 of 12 Tory MPs from Saskatchewan continue to smack around Saskatchewanians in a Mulroneyesque fashion of governance, when they and their affiliated Saskatchewan Party know just where that got them all before, paid the political price at the time and look possibly to repeat history once more.