On CTV's Mike Duffy Live I'm watching western separatist Conservative mouthpiece Ezra Levant go on about the latest candidate to be punted for saying bad things in the present or past. Ezra is, by the way, volunteering in the Conservative Party election war room. Maybe he's not being paid because he'll be easy to dismiss when he invariably makes another bone-headed move. He's been there, done that.

After all, what's an election without half a dozen of these fire-resignations. This time its a Liberal being dumped for comments he made in the 1990's. Dion made the right decision to reject the nomination by the way. Ezra seems to be a bit confused about this but he does have a tendency to flirt with crossing the line between what is acceptable and what is not.

What's really funny is why the Conservative Party keeps trotting out Levant. You'd think on a news day where Harper is in Quebec misleadingly tying an environmental tax to - oh my - national unity, that they'd have locked up avowed separatists like Ezra Levant! He, like many (but certainly not all) of his ilk from the Reeeeform and Canadian Alliance days are unabashed separatists.

Yes, that's right - he was keen to see Quebec separate and if they didn't, he'd be happy with getting the west to split. That sort of thinking fits right in with the folks who still support Stephen Harper's firewall notions. Harper today didn't do himself any favours by trying to tie carbon taxes to national unity as it gave Dion a perfect opportunity to flash his credentials as captain Canada.

I'm not really going out of my way to pick on the Conservatives. I actually like some of them. Levant certainly isn't one of them. Neither is Harper to no surprise of readers here.

Perhaps some of their nuttier operatives can shut their mouths for a few minutes so we can look elsewhere. As I'm an equal opportunity critic next up is a dig at the dippers.