Clash of the turncoats?

As much appeal as there is to the Emerson-recall movement, wouldn't it be even more fun to see David Schreck's proposed matchup next time Canada goes to the polls?

When questioned about Emerson, Prime Minister Harper said that it is important to him to have representation from the city of Vancouver. If he is going to keep that representation, Emerson will have to find another seat for the next election...

The seat where the Conservatives would probably stand the best chance in a 2007 election is Vancouver South, currently occupied by Ujjal Dosanjh, who won 20,991 votes, while the Conservative, Tarkok Sablok, came second with 11,856. The Liberals won by almost 12,000 votes in Vancouver Quadra, and they were more than 13,000 votes ahead of the Conservatives in Vancouver Centre. It's no wonder that Dosanjh was particularly agitated when interviewed shortly after the announcement about Emerson's change in parties.

It has to be a plus to know that whoever won that matchup, there'll be at least some element of justified schadenfreude in seeing the other one defeated. And if the NDP could sneak up the middle (Bev Meslo was a couple of thousand votes behind Sablok this time around)...well, that's one to file under "we can only hope".