The Liberals and other parties are lectured here all the time (even the guy to the south is being lectured here all the time) by you, me and others.  Why?  Because it is a DISCUSSION forum.

And it is an actual job of political scientists and pundits to lecture the politicians and Tom Flanagan is one of the more learned among the the political punditry.  He may even be more politically knowledgeable than you.

Your brilliant argument consisting solely of comparing Flanagan to a dead sheep may win over some other moronic lefty loon.

But not me.

A particularly incisive and on point column, Professor Flanagan.

Governments usually defeat themselves.  They do this by being caught in boondoggles, burglaries, bungles, gaffes and nosestretchers..  As you say, the cynical ER ploy could be one of those major things that bring down this government.   After his first election, Trudeau 1.0 was rejected by English Canada and came within 2 seats of being a one term PM.  I expect Justin to do worse