Now that "King" Harper has decided to suspend (prorogue) Parliament till Jan. 26, a question that the Liberal Party has yet to deal with looms large
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I think things are in such flux right now we can't predict what will happen after January. Maybe Dion will have regained their confidence. Maybe someone else will appear to lead. Maybe they'll move quicker, or wait to see what happens when Parliament reconvenes in 2009.
I think it's a bit of a new game now. Hard to predict what will happen within each party, but a Coalition (whether it's taken over the government or not) is a quite different creature than the individual parties.
Maybe so, but Mr. Dion has not been popular for some time and he was due to be replaced. If elections were held and the Liberals had a new leader, the number of seats in the House would be fairer ... and the Conservatives (Reform) may lose quite a few of them.
Do you think the Liberals can find someone more effective?
Since I have no particular problem with Dion (and don't understand his general unpopularity) I think the problem is more generalized than lying with him; he failed to capture the public imagination but everyone was so lacklustre in the federal election I wouldn't pin the blame on him. I suspect scapegoating. I have no problem with the Liberals picking another leader, and hope they do well. On general principles, I'd rather see successful Liberals than successful Tories. If the Liberals can find someone intelligent, with good principles and charisma, so much the better.
Oh, I agree with you. I rather like Dion, myself, but so many others don't--including his own party--that it would probably ease a lot of people's minds if he stepped down. As a replacement, I'm stumped. Most of the ones I really liked were purged when Martin took control of the party, and Justin Trudeau's just too young yet.
it would probably ease a lot of people's minds if he stepped down
I do wonder if this would be going differently if it weren't Dion who would become PM with the Coalition, or if Dion hadn't had popularlity problems recently.
As a replacement, I'm stumped
That's the problem. Someone may come forward, but who? It hasn't happened yet.
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I think it's a bit of a new game now. Hard to predict what will happen within each party, but a Coalition (whether it's taken over the government or not) is a quite different creature than the individual parties.
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Since I have no particular problem with Dion (and don't understand his general unpopularity) I think the problem is more generalized than lying with him; he failed to capture the public imagination but everyone was so lacklustre in the federal election I wouldn't pin the blame on him. I suspect scapegoating. I have no problem with the Liberals picking another leader, and hope they do well. On general principles, I'd rather see successful Liberals than successful Tories. If the Liberals can find someone intelligent, with good principles and charisma, so much the better.
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I do wonder if this would be going differently if it weren't Dion who would become PM with the Coalition, or if Dion hadn't had popularlity problems recently.
As a replacement, I'm stumped
That's the problem. Someone may come forward, but who? It hasn't happened yet.
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