Dion, after a disappointing outing in his first electoral test since becoming Liberal leader, will face intense questions from a profoundly unhappy party.
While Mulcair and NDP leader Jack Layton were jubilant last night, Liberal disquiet with Dion's leadership has hit new lows. Not only did the party fail to show well in two other Quebec by-elections, it could not hold a Montreal fortress that has been in party hands, with one brief exception, since 1935."
From Liberals trounced in Quebec by-elections: "The right and left wings of Canada's political spectrum got a boost last night from three Quebec by-elections that pounded Stéphane Dion's Liberal party and dealt a blow to the province's sovereignists.
The minority Conservative government added a seat in Roberval-Lac-Saint-Jean, giving it 126 MPs. A troubled Liberal party lost its traditional fortress in the Montreal riding of Outremont to the New Democratic Party, which ran a popular former Quebec environment minister, Thomas Mulcair..."
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"...The NDP victory in Outremont is significant for two reasons: The riding has gone Liberal in all but one election since 1935. As well, Mulcair profited from his personal popularity to win just the second seat ever in Quebec for the left-wing party. (The first was consumer advocate Phil Edmunston, who won a 1990 by-election.)
"Today, Quebec has chosen a new direction," NDP Leader Jack Layton told a cheering crowd in Outremont as he congratulated them for "making history and changing the direction of politics in Quebec and across Canada."
[Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 19, 2007]
Note: NDP takes Outremont
Liberals trounced in Qu...
Stumble It!
backstabbing party, with the same vicious tactics seen in the Chretien/Martin
debacle carried on mere days after the leadership convention in Montreal.
I hope we find out who put the binders on this Outremont by-election
campaign. It was defensive and innocuous from the beginning.
Begining with pathetic Coulon posters, a kind of sickly green wash and thin
lettering, touched off with a timid little "Liberal" stuck in the corner. All of this
further embellished with a sort of CIBC dark red colour instead of healthy
bright Liberal red. But that detail alone will not lose an election. A
concentrated effort to impede will, especially if from within as some
journalists have indicated. Perhaps there are too many leftover guys from the
past regime. Stephane Dion has some housecleaning to do. Integrity's not
enough when dealing with these old line characters.
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
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As far as I'm concerned anyone who voted for the Conservatives rather than the
BLOC just changed their vote from on separatist party to another.
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"The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place."
Alex Steffan
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
What was the first thing Harper did to end cronyizm, 'adscams' and political appointments? He appoints a campaign advisor to the senate, and puts him in charge of the most corrupt post in government - HRDC.
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
-Max Planck
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va