December 3rd, 2006
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No, really. Mid speech.
Dion has just pulled off one of the more remarkable victories in Canadian politics and the CBC has cut to the hockey game.
Which puts this in perspective.
In the real world Dion has just won the leadership of a nearly bankrupt party sitting in Opposition. For all the buzz that’s the place Dion starts.
As I write the Premiership of the Province of Alberta is in the balance. Three candidates and likely over 100,000 voters. The guy who wins is the Premier of the richest and most conservative province in Canada.
Dion has used the word “sustainable” about twenty times in his speech. He’s very green. Flourescent.
The next Premier of Alberta isn’t.
Harper is in the middle. But he’s leaning. And he is not leaning Dion’s way.
About 8:00pm we are going to know who won in Alberta. Which is likely more important.
Written by jay on December 3rd, 2006 with 1 comment.
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Rae is moving….where?
If he goes to Dion it’s over. And Iggy knows it. Will Iggy do the classy thing and follow the mo?
For the Liberals’ sake I hope so.
Of the 1100 votes which were loose on the last ballot 800 went to Dion.
Update: Now it is all about the delegates. Dion Gear is going to anybody who requests it. Iggy and Rae cannot whip their delegates to each other. Cherniak
Update II: “Look at the numbers. Iggy’s people were spinning 35 per cent on the first ballot for their guy, and after three ballots they STILL aren’t there. You can’t spin that away. Look at the growth. Michael picked-up 135 votes, while Dion grew my an earth shattering 642 votes. Look at the momentum: Dion.” a BCer in Toronto
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A prophet is not without honour,save in his own country, and in his own house.
jesus, Matthew 13:57
So far the networks have not managed to interview Jesus but he certainly would have understood Dion’s dilemma.
Dion, political junkies will remember, stuck it to the PQ with the Clarity Act and his open letters to Quebec. Basically, Dion forced the issue of soft separatism to the great discomfort not only of the soverigntists but also the concept of profitable federalism. As Wikipedia puts it,
In the three open letters, Dion maintained the position that the Government of Canada would negotiate the secession of the province of Quebec if a clear majority of Quebecers expressed their will to secede in a clear and unambiguous question. This position became the cornerstone of the Clarity Act and is credited along with the growing unpopularity of the Parti Québécois government and the growing fatigue with the sovereignty debate to weakening public support in Quebec for sovereignty until the Sponsorship Scandal broke in 2004. wikipedia
A certain segment of the Quebec political elite has hated him ever since. And that segment includes many people who are delegates to the current convention.
Which may very well mean that Dion may win without significant support in Quebec. Which, strangely enough, was much the situation Jean Chrétien found himself in as he went on to beat Paul Martin.
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