Good News for Canada
A week ago last night, I found myself with a couple of friends, kosikova and vernski, enjoying conversation and a lovely spread, not to mention the alcoholic beverages requisite to such get-togethers.
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I heard Olivia Chow on The Current this morning before I went into the office and I was not impressed. Her "analysis" on Dion's win and what it might mean was pretty much limited to hacking at him for the Chretien government's "corruption" and a few soundbites from the official NDP reaction.
I found it depressing, because the NDP really doesn't seem to know what it's there for anymore (and hasn't, I don't think, since the Broadbent years, if not before then). Christ, you probably know that a few months back (in a phrase that will come back to haunt him big time), Layton said of Dion, "But also a man who is, if I may say so across the partisan divide, distinct from his principal opponents in being a committed Canadian and a man of principle and conviction.
"And therefore almost certain not to be elected leader of the Liberal party." (See www.ndp.ca/page/4283 for the whole speech, if you care to.)
Anyway, I digress.
I think you are wrong about the North American people, if only someone will give them a reason to look beyond surface panache.
If Dion can actually offer integrity, imagination and a love of country, you'll see the Liberals win at least 30 seats in Quebec, hold their own in Atlantic Canada, push back the Tories in Ontario and make inroads across the prairies, including taking at least a couple of seats in Alberta, along with doing better in BC than they did last time around.
Mark Young Geoffrey's wise, wise words.
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