And if we elect them, we'll eventually be unemployed!

Politics it really does make for strange bedfellows! PSAC, the Public Service Alliance of Canada is the union that represents Federal workers across the nation, they negotiate contracts, try to resolve workplace issues and it seems provide electoral advice to an anxious membership as well.

In a recent bulletin, PSAC has urged union members and voters in general, in four Quebec ridings located in the national capital region to vote for the Bloc candidates! Which is an interesting selection for any civil servant, seeing as the Bloc is dedicated to taking Quebec out of confederation and one would assume Quebec workers out of the Canadian Federal public service.

If the Bloc were to find election success and then realize their long time aspirations for an independent Quebec, one wonders what all those civil servants who marked an X for the Bloc would do for a living. Surely they couldn't expect to be collecting a paycheck from that evil rump of a land called Canada!

Of course the folks at PSAC weren't alone in their endorsement of the Bloc, Canadian Auto Workers head Buzz Hargrove once again stuck a finger in Jack Layton's eye in what seems to be an ongoing routine. This time Harrove suggesting that Quebec voters would be better off voting for the Bloc, that is if they didn't like his other suggestion of Paul Martin's candidates as a nice place to make an X. Somehow, he keeps forgetting to mention that guy with the moustache as a possible place to park a vote.

Hargrove, who has repeatedly come to the aid of the Liberal leader much to the dismay of many of his fellow union members and travelers in NDP circles, proved to be a one man buzzsaw on Wednesday. Suggesting that Stephen Harper was a separatist and apparently the best way to fight that separatist in Buzz's world, is to vote for the actual real live separatists. It's to say the least bemusing.

Buzz's help didn't exactly make Martin's day, as the Prime Minister spent the better part of his public appearances doing some damage control on Hargrove's Rain man like ranting.

Perhaps Jack and the NDP are fortunate that Hargrove didn't come on side, he's not doing much to push Martin over the top and in these last few days seems to be causing more problems than he's solving.

One thing is certain after this election it won't be just the Liberals that may have to do some serious soul searching, there seem to be some rather problematic issues in the house of labour as well!