This weekend sees the election of a new leader for the Liberal party of Canada, the long long battle for power which has been going on for almost a year now.
There are eight contestants: Michael Ignatieff (intellectual and former journalist), Bob Rae (former NDP premier in Ontario), Gerard Kennedy (social reformer young type), Stephan Dion (Quebecois candidate, former Minister for the Environment here), Ken Dryden (former hockey goalie and newbie politician), Scott Brison (Nova Scotian who has been the star of this blog before), some other non-entity I can't remember and Martha the woman with the double barrelled name who is coming in last.
There's a huge conference in Montreal where they are all giving speeches tonight and so I am in happy land.
Prepare to be bored for the next twenty four hours.
Very very bored.
Obviously I am up for Bob Rae. Although Ken Dryden's my underdog hero and his speech rocked just a bit ago. And when he came offstage a journalist asked him what he wanted and he bellowed "I want my canada back" at her. V. funny. I know exactly what he meant.
Stephan Dion is talking now and he has a very strong Quebec accent which I find offputting (along with most of Canada although they won't admit it). Although Dion was a good Minister of the Environment.
But he won't win I think. Although traditionally Liberal leaders come from Quebec.
Paul Martin was from Quebec, but he didn't sound like Dion.
Happy happy junkie politics place....! They're all taking lumps out of the Tories.
I should get myself a beer now.
1 comment:
Obviously I am up for Bob Rae.
But surely if he has left your party for yankee dollar
he is some kind of TURNCOAT TRAITOR, the kind of person who will be FIRST UP AGAINST THE WALL when the NDP take over Canada?
BTW, you seem to have misspelled "cockfarmer" when describing Michael Ignatieff
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