Modeling Journey

Alice Klein in rabble.ca has this to say about the swirling merger talks started by a fellow camed Kinsella:

Of course, the sexy focus of discussion on the idea of merger is soooo off the table. The real question is how two political parties which have no prospect of forming a government despite the fact that together, they represent the majority sentiment of Canadians, can take the political power they deserve away from a Republican-style right-wing minority.

The potential ways and means for achieving that are many -- starting from offering tacit support to grassroots strategic voting initiatives (a la the voteforenvironment.ca campaign I was involved in last election) all the way to official non-aggression pacts a la Stéphane Dion and Elizabeth May in the last election. Of all these, merger is the least interesting, attractive, sensible, worthwhile or do-able...