...and what have we learned? One thing is that Stephen Harper and the rest of them can have a fairly civilized discussion when they sit at a table rather than point and pontificate from a podium. Next election, some beer and bags of sour cream and onion chips in the middle, please. Other than that, I simply think it is extraordinary that the Conservative message is "DO NOTHING!" - do not have a platform, do not react to the market and manufacturing crisis, do not use government for anything much, and do not really react in any way to any question put to you during the debate. Calm leadership or asleep at the wheel?

Steve Paikin from TVO was a great moderator.

Other news for day 27:

• ...since Sept. 1 Canada's premier stock market has fallen 21 per cent versus a 9 per cent drop for the Dow Jones index.
• FDR cast the money changers from the temple in 1933. Will we hear that sort of language soon from our era's elected?
• One of my longest blog reads, Blork, mades some intersting points about what 700 billion can buy for a nation - all the bridges fixed for about 25% of that is one thing. The weird thing - it's only four times Apple according to the CBS morning show just now.
• I had no idea I was so not cool in the 1990s.
• "A good business, and perhaps relationship, rule-of-thumb. NEVER GET INVOLVED WITH SOMEONE WHO WINKS AT YOU."