In the House of Commons, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe accused "the Liberal-Conservative coalition" of abandoning the unemployed and New Democratic Party Deputy Leader Tom Mulcair mocked Ignatieff as "deputy prime minister." Harper blasted the NDP as "completely irrelevant."
Jack Layton's federal NDP has been reduced to irrelevant in the light of the coalition agreement between Michael Ignatieff and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
From a high in December 2008 when Layton was eying the opportunity to sit on either the right hand or the left hand of the exalted leader Stephane Dion, its all bottomed out for the federal NDP.
The Bloc Quebecois and Gillies Duceppe find themselves in the same leaky canoe with a bit of a difference. The Bloc recognizes themselves that they are a regional or splinter party trying to enhance Quebec and the interests of Quebecers. Separatism aside.
But the NDP claims to be a national party representing the social interests of all Canadians but the big boys Michael and Stephen have slammed the door on that.
So where does the NDP go from here? Most likely they will sit and wait for fall desperately hoping that Ignatieff and Harper will separate themselves again on an issue or two. The big question though for the NDP is, will Michael get it done this time or will he again just huff, puff and capitulate again as he always does.
In the meantime, it might be time for the NDP to find a new leader. Without that the NDP sit in a worse scenario than the dog who's bark is worse than its bite. With Jack Layton leading the NDP its become no bark, no bite.
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