As the magnitude of the current crisis in Ottawa continues to sink in with Canadians two main questions must be answered. How is it that a democratically elected Prime Minister and government given a significant increase in seats (127 to 143) less than two months after being voted in by the people could be replaced with an unelected, ill-conceived and potentially disastrous coalition headed up by Stephen Dion the man rejected by the Canadian people, his own province and his own party? Astonishing is far to weak a word to describe this development.