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The [Stephane Dion] the Grits finally and surprisingly chose as the leader of the new Liberals did not exactly come without baggage himself. He was a veteran of four Liberal governments -- if not always as a war horse of the old party, then at least as a work horse for it. Astonishingly, he chose as his leadership issue the environment, even though his record as environment minister was abysmally bad, earning him a reputation as the Dr. Doolittle of climate change. The Liberal governments in which he served in had have been called the Dr. Doonothings of global warming. They complacently presided over a massive increase in Canadian greenhouse emissions even as they preached the virtues of Kyoto. And now, it seems, they want to fight an election on this dreadful record. And they might wel...
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Even though I'm a stalwart Liberal party supporter, I just can't bring myself to vote for Stephane Dion. I really don't want a Conservative majority, but I can't support the current Liberal leader. A new Harris/Decima poll says that although female support for the Tories has slipped to 34 per cent from 40 per cent, Dion's numbers remain at 27. The lipstick mafia has fled to the Greens, the NDP and the Bloc. Here's why I'm just not that into Dion: He's myopic: Dion has no original planks to call his own. It's as if the Liberal policy wonks were relaxing at the cottage this summer instead of forging an election platform. Dion has one signature policy: the Green Shift. This is a similar policy to the one he cannily borrowed from the Greens to defeat the more bankable Michael Ignatieff a...
