In the first test of his leadership, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has allowed a protest vote from six Newfoundland MPs. He’s drawn some criticism for having done so but since some of the sources are hacks like Tom Flanagan, a buddy of Harper, I don’t put a lot of stock in the criticism.

For some, the question is how can this be a one time exception? What happens next time Danny Williams brings pressure to bear?

If Ignatieff wants to set himself out as a reasoned alternative to Harper, he might want to rethink the ‘one time’ concept. He may want to giving some serious consideration to serving notice on Harper that punitive moves on any region of this country will resulting in him allowing protest votes from Liberal MPs in that region.

It didn’t take much to figure that the changes to the Atlantic Accord buried in the budget were meant as payback to Newfoundland for Danny Williams campaign against Harper and his bullying ways. A repeat attack should find twelve MPs engaged in a protest vote, then eighteen and so on.

Harper has demonstrated repeatedly that he’s not against attempting to pit one area of the country against another area in order to attempt to gain a voting advantage. The counter to that seems to be that he find himself faced with a growing number of MPs from all parts of the country protesting against his regional onslaughts.

He will either stop or find himself being tipped over the edge to which no proroguing will help save him.

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