Former Liberal May Join NDP

"It's not the party I joined in 2004," she said Tuesday. "It's so different. You claim you're a governing party but you're supposed to be more solid." She said Liberal party officials have been stringing her along for two years to run in the Gatineau riding she lost in 2006 to Richard Nadeau of the Bloc Quebecois. But she discovered that all the while they were looking for a more prestigious candidate. "I was good enough from 2004 to 2006 to be sent left, right and centre ... to defend the Liberal brand in English and French, but once the job is done, then ... 'we're looking for somebody else,' " she said. "I don't think it's the way you treat people." She has told NDP colleagues there is one Liberal she will not criticize -- Paul Martin, who was prime minister when she had a seat in parliament from 2004 to 2006. She says Martin has urged her not to jump ship -- but to no avail. "Sometimes it's too little, too late." Although the NDP came fourth in Gatineau in the 2006 election, with about a quarter of the votes secured by Bloc Quebecois winner Richard Nadeau, Boivin believes she can take many of the thousands of Liberals who supported her over to the NDP. "I'm not crazy, I'm not going to say we're going to win, but boy, we're going to give them a run for their money if I jump in," she said. ... http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=842b365e-6731-47d8-9ee8-fadc7b8aaba9&k=34656

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