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Can the libs just buy off some representative? Could Canada have a Jim Jeffords like switch?

That's certainly possible. One or two of the 7 remaining Red Tories in Atlantic Canada are most suspect. Atlantic Canada's pretty close to Vermont, after all, in geography and politics.

But I think Paul Martin's going to have to govern from the center here. He won't enter into any permanent minority government arrangement with the NDP or the Bloc. He doesn't have to. Instead, Martin will collaborate with the Conservatives when appropriate, and the NDP and Bloc when appropriate.

Hopefully, Martin's not a good enough politician to pull it off, the government will fall, and the Liberals will lose. But after my spectacularly wrong projection from yesterday, I'm done prognosticating on Canadian elections -- at least for now.