"Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper will be "getting into bed" with Quebec separatists if he defeats the federal budget and forces an election, says the leader of the federal New Democrats." "If this budget goes down because Stephen Harper wants to call people names ... then he'll have to answer for that." Harper denounced the Liberal-NDP agreement as "death-bed conversions and deals with the devil."

Wait a minute: Is he saying that a separatist can't be Prime Minister? Why is he calling people names -- "separatist" -- when he knows the preferred word is "sovereigntist"? Is this the kind of intolerance and anti-Quebec rhetoric we can expect from a New Democratic government? Someone should really ask Paul Wells what he thinks about Jack Layton's opinion of Stephen Harper's views of Gilles Duceppe's thoughts on...