Maxime Bernier has sent the Bloc Quebecois and the usual suspects into an expected wild stupor over his letter to La Press counselling against alarm-ism on the global warming debate.  Bernier's earlier speech on the wisdom of deficit financing was a splash of cold water on official Ottawa, but pales in comparison to what can be expected from the other opposition parties, the mainstream media and special-interest groups. The pressure from the PMO or his own party to 'retract' or  'clairfy' his statement out of this blowback may prove to be the most serious.

If Mad Max manages to stand up through the storm that is likely to blow his way, many disenfranchised Canadians who do not right now see their champion in Parliament may begin to look his way as their voice inside the House.