Losers: Liberal war room for going neg on Harper. For the second consecutive week, Dion's carbon tax just isn't clicking with Canadians - so what to do? Hey, let's make some stuff up about the PM. Good to see the Liberals learned so much from the 2006 campaign.
Policy loser: Stéphane Dion's carbon tax. For crying out loud, it's Day 10 of the campaign and Dion's still explaining his policy to those that don't seem understand it. Don't believe me? Well, I just got through watching CBC Newsworld this morning and he was telling reporters (and members of the PPG) in Halifax to go to the Liberal website and punch in a few numbers to see how much a family would get back in taxes with his plan. It got so bad that Bob Rae, yes Bob Rae, had to come in and rescue his leader before it got out-of-hand. Could just be me, but I don't see the Green Shift making it over the finish line in this campaign. In other words, if he is still explaining it by the end of this week, the backroom boys of the Liberal party will pressure him to pull the plug on it.
Winner: Whichever Liberal strategist made the decision to drop Dion from their most recent ad. I think the Grits now realize that this is not about him winning anymore, it's about the Liberal partysaving face and having a party left after the 14th of October.
Losers: Five ex-Bloc MPs for criticizing their former boss by saying their party "has lost its raison d'être and relevance in Ottawa and become a mouthpiece for Quebec's powerful union movement." And b/c of this, it has vaulted Duceppe's campaign into serious damage control.
Local Winner: Yes, it's a Liberal!! None other then former NB Premier Frank McKenna for cleverly distancing himself from this whole Dion mess. And hey, what better way to
I have reincarnated this old blog and will be following both the national as well as the local developments in the New Brunswick region leading up to the 2011 federal election.
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Dion is trying to overcome his leadership deficit by pulling in others - Martin earlier and today Bob Rae. Will this work on voters? We wonder.
I just read Atlantic Business Magazine and here's how Alec Bruce described Dion's policy: "The federal Liberals' "Green Shift" may be the weakest piece of public policy ever conceived by the latest generation of Ottawa fat cats."
Can't argue with him there.
While I have serious concerns about the Green Shift plan, I have even greater concerns about doing nothing. And, I'm not hearing what the Tories are offering to do. Instead they are offering not to do it Dion's way. I was hoping they would answer the deficits and loop holes in the Green Shift with a viable alternative policy of their own.
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I agree with the commenter above. This whole situation makes me very afraid for the future of our environment. For once, a politician comes up with a plan that will actually encourage people to slow damage to our fast-deteriorating environmental conditions, and how is this effort rewarded? With criticism by other politicians trying to leverage any issue they can to gain more votes, which seems to be working mainly because of a public which is not being properly educated on the issue. What incentive are we giving our politicians to encourage them to sustain our environment? I feel very sorry for our children and future generations who will actually have to face the consequences of our political games today.
Bob Rae campaigning in Ontario on the economy...now there's a wild card for ya. What a joke.
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