“Untrustworthy Tories, socialist NDP, bumbling Grits: Poll puts a pox on all”

An interesting headline in the Globe and Mail. I tend to agree with the poll results. All three parties need a new leader that people can trust.

Read the story here.

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Bob Rae Named Interim Leader of the Liberal Party

I hope Bob Rae will do a great job until the new permanent leader is selected. I feel Bob Rae will make a great interim leader given his lengthy public service. I admit too, I think it is good that he is out of the race for permanent leader. Bob Rae is a good person, but his premiership of Ontario was unfortunately a failed one. The Ontario NDP was a one-term government and is far from forming another government in Ottawa.

I read Bob Rae's 1996 autobiography and was a little disappointed in that he blamed everyone else but himself for his failures. His premiership of Ontario would have been major baggage to overcome if he ran in the 2015 election as federal Liberal leader. The Conservatives would have had extraordinary ammunition to attack him and maybe his fate would have been the same as Ignatieff's and Dion's.

I wish the Liberal Party well and hope in the long-term they will choose a good leader who can excite the grassroots and make the Liberals again the ruling party. If the Liberal Party sticks to a centrist track it has a lot to contribute to Canada.

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Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae and Dominic Leblanc: Let the race begin

When Rae and Iggy, the old college buddies, are evening the score is it possible that Leblanc will slide by and become the leader? Sorry to say but the Liberal leadership race so far remains a big yawn. Some fireworks and action is needed. Maybe we should put them in a boxing ring. Instead of debates there should be a few rounds of sparring.

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Liberal Leadership Race a big yawn

It is boring and more boring. Like the yawning guy in the picture I feel the same. And now they have blacked out their first leadership candidates' forum. They are trying to keep it as boring, unengaging, and secretive as possible

Below is my run-down of the candidates:

Michael Ignatieff: We have been there before. Scholarly but do we really want another professor as a leader? After all Dion was a professor, a very nice person and loyal Canadian, but lacked political street-fighting skills. Also, Ignatieff spent most of his adult life in the US. Does he really understand Canadians at the grassroots? I will be writing more on this at a later time.

Bob Rae: Nice guy. Likeable and speaks well but insurmountable baggage. Failed NDP Premier of Ontario. Are Canadians going to forget it and especially are Ontarians going to forget it. Watch my future posts on this.

Dominic LeBlanc: See my earlier post on him. Young and energetic. But Canadians need to know a lot more about him before they develop confidence in him. It will be a break from the past and beginning of a new era for Liberals if he succeeds.

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Bob Rae is back in Parliament... this time as a Liberal

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