Leger poll: 70% of English Canadians oppose the coalition

According to a massive national poll taken by Leger Marketing, 60% of Canadians oppose having the Bloc hold the balance of power in the proposed Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition, and that number rises to 70% outside of Quebec. You can read more analyis here, or see Leger's release itself, here.

It's not just that the overwhelming majority of Canadians are against this separatist coalition. Most of them are very much against it -- they're revved up about it.

Gentle reader, try some empathy. How would you feel if you were a Liberal (or NDP) Member of Parliament from Ontario, who had won his seat by, say, 5%. According to the poll, 64% of Ontarians are concerned about the Bloc's role -- only 31% say they're not.

In that generic Ontario riding, you've got three parties chasing that 31% -- the Liberals, NDP and the Greens. And you've got the Conservatives all by itself, fishing in the 64% pond. Those kind of numbers would mean Tory victories in Toronto proper.

And we're just three days into this thing.

The rallies haven't started yet.

The town halls haven't started yet.

We've only just begun to hear the irritating crowing of the Bloc Quebecois and their provincial equivalents.

Stephane Dion doesn't care -- he knows he'll be fired in May by his own party.

But there are 76 other Liberal MPs who still think they might have a political future.

If they thought losing their party's government subsidy would hurt them, how about having their core identity as the party of national unity being destroyed?