Jay Currie

Almost a week after his party received the biggest electoral drubbing since Confederation, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion today vowed to steer his party through the opening of the 40th Parliament, but his tenure is expected to end at a Leadership convention in May.

That means he will take his place opposite Prime Minister Stephen Harper when the 40th Parliament of Canada opens in November.

“I fully accept my share of the responsibility,” Mr. Dion said of the Liberal electoral failure. “We must learn quickly from this experience and move on. The search for a new Liberal leader will be part of a process of renewing our party, but clearly will not in itself be sufficient.” globe and mail

So now the Liberal Party goes into leadership race mode. Grudges to settle, new candidates and no money. Should be tons of fun.

“At the end of the day, people thought it was a carbon tax and were afraid of it,” he said of the Green Shift plan that formed a central plank of his election campaign. globe and mail

The poor man still has not figured it out: what he proposed was a carbon tax and people recognized it for what it was. They didn’t like a carbon tax so they didn’t vote for the guy who proposed it.

It is just possible the Liberal Party will elect a leader who is not quite as clueless but not if the children are left in charge of the convention as they were last time. The Liberals need some cynical old pros to find a leader who can appeal to all Canadians and who can actually raise money.

Good luck with that.