Adam Radwanski is spot on today:

Yes, it’s not hard to dislike Stephen Harper if you watch him on a day-to-day basis. But in the big-picture sense, it’s not entirely clear to your average person what it is that’s fundamentally wrong with his government.

The opposition, to this point, has done a lousy job of framing the case against the Conservatives – because fundamentally, it’s yet to disagree with it on major issues of economic stewardship (at least since January’s budget), major social priorities, foreign policy…anything, really. There’s hasn’t even been a convincing, consistent argument that the government is economically incompetent – admittedly a tough case to make when it more or less adopted your budget demands

Instead, policy differences like the trumped-up EI spat are predicated on the notion that all you need is an excuse to bring it down, and that all Canadians are looking for is an excuse to replace it.