Axworthy On Board
For those who missed it, former Trudeau advisor and chair of the renewal commission, Tom Axworthy has endorsed Gerard Kennedy.
In Other News...
-"Final" delegate totals are up on Liberal.ca and Dryden has moved ahead of Volpe for 5th place.
-There's another delegate poll out and it seems to match most of the Ekos numbers from a few months back. Given that twenty questions were asked, this will be another which can be spun in a million directions. Dion does well among the second choice options, although half the delegates are still undecided as to who they pick as number two. Iggy is still seen as the most likely to win an election. Kennedy has passed Rae on the second choice list and the poll showed more delegates oppose Harper's nation motion than support it which bodes well for him.
-Welcome your newest member of Parliament - Glen Pearson. Elizabeth May made it close and can be proud of her showing while Dianne Haskett...well, the Tories better make sure she's not heir candidate the next time Londoners go to the polls.
Glen Pearson, Liberal: 13,287 (34.9)
Elizabeth May, Green: 9,864 (25.9)
Dianne Haskett, Conservative: 9,309 (24.4)
Megan Walker, NDP: 5,388 (14.1)
-Ed Stelmach has picked up endorsements from the 4th, 5th and 6th place candidates in the PC leadership race. I probably won't get a chance to comment on this much over the next few days so I'll just say: Premier Stelmach - you heard it hear second.
-Peter Van Loan will be taking over Michael Chong's responsibilities at Intergovernmental Affairs. Presumably these will include buying Stephen Harper's National Post and Double-Double every morning.
-Gerard Kennedy will be on the Rick Mercer Report Tonight. Presumably he will be fully clothed for the entire duration of the segment.
-The first two rounds of the bloggers roundtable are up on Macleans. In them, we bat around the nation question and foreign policy and I conclude that Gerard rocks, Jason concludes that Dion rocks, Ted conclude that Iggy rocks and John concluds that Rae rocks.
Round 1
Round 2
"I have just been shocked by what I've learned, and therefore the candidate who spoke most convincingly and generally and enthusiastically about revitalizing the party as an institution from top to bottom was Kennedy and that's why I went for him,'' said Axworthy, a Queen's University political science professor.
''Liberals they decide upon winnability and they decide upon policy issues and so on. My big concern is the future long-term viability of the Liberal party and he's the candidate in my view who has the best position when it comes to that.''
In Other News...
-"Final" delegate totals are up on Liberal.ca and Dryden has moved ahead of Volpe for 5th place.
-There's another delegate poll out and it seems to match most of the Ekos numbers from a few months back. Given that twenty questions were asked, this will be another which can be spun in a million directions. Dion does well among the second choice options, although half the delegates are still undecided as to who they pick as number two. Iggy is still seen as the most likely to win an election. Kennedy has passed Rae on the second choice list and the poll showed more delegates oppose Harper's nation motion than support it which bodes well for him.
-Welcome your newest member of Parliament - Glen Pearson. Elizabeth May made it close and can be proud of her showing while Dianne Haskett...well, the Tories better make sure she's not heir candidate the next time Londoners go to the polls.
Glen Pearson, Liberal: 13,287 (34.9)
Elizabeth May, Green: 9,864 (25.9)
Dianne Haskett, Conservative: 9,309 (24.4)
Megan Walker, NDP: 5,388 (14.1)
-Ed Stelmach has picked up endorsements from the 4th, 5th and 6th place candidates in the PC leadership race. I probably won't get a chance to comment on this much over the next few days so I'll just say: Premier Stelmach - you heard it hear second.
-Peter Van Loan will be taking over Michael Chong's responsibilities at Intergovernmental Affairs. Presumably these will include buying Stephen Harper's National Post and Double-Double every morning.
-Gerard Kennedy will be on the Rick Mercer Report Tonight. Presumably he will be fully clothed for the entire duration of the segment.
-The first two rounds of the bloggers roundtable are up on Macleans. In them, we bat around the nation question and foreign policy and I conclude that Gerard rocks, Jason concludes that Dion rocks, Ted conclude that Iggy rocks and John concluds that Rae rocks.
Round 1
Round 2
posted by calgarygrit at
2:47 AM
15 Comments:
Leave it to you for a parapraxia Nazi reference...
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Liberal Pebbles, at 4:04 AM
That kool-aid all these newbies are drinking is powerful stuff !!!
What if we were to propose a motion to delay the selection of party leader for another week, just to give everyone time to clear their heads and think.
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Down & Out in L A, at 5:20 AM
With 44% of delegates polled not responding who their Second Choice will be, and not having all the raw data (only a CTV article and a Globe and Mail article thus far - nothing on thestrategiccounsel.com yet) of which candidate's Second Choice goes to which candidate - i.e., it doesn't really matter who Iggy's supporters' Second Choice is since they will not have to use it - this thing is still not callable and will be determined by the organizations on the ground and the candidate speeches on Friday.
It is going to be memorable!
MississaugaPeter
Note: high praise is warranted for Glen Pearson and all those excellent volunteers from right across Ontario who helped him on the campaign!
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Peter, at 7:16 AM
Wasn't it 43% opposed and 41% in favour of "nation"? With the margin of error and the undecideds, it's at minimum split right down the middle on the issue.
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Cerberus, at 9:58 AM
-"Final" delegate totals are up on Liberal.ca and Dryden has moved ahead of Volpe for 5th place.
What happened - did some of Volpe's supporters die? Is it possible to do that more than once?
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Reality Bites, at 10:17 AM
I'm no Liberal, but Glenn Pearson seems like a fine Canadian.
Congratulations to him on his by-election victory.
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Chuckercanuck, at 10:44 AM
Stelmach really has the big mo...
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Toronto Tory, at 10:51 AM
Okay now this is just damned funny - talk about your flip flop - too bad the country has gone through hell in the past few weeks.
Quebec Liberals Pull "Nationhood Thingy"
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Left Right and Center, at 11:47 AM
Remember to show your support for ignatieff for the great week canada just had that hes responsible for!
Just imagine what it will be like with him in charge.
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propatria, at 12:41 PM
Propatria:
Getting bored yet? We all are. Can you at least find a different or remotely interesting way to say the same thing over and over and over day after day after day post after post after post.
Please.
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Rank & File Liberal, at 1:45 PM
Hmm lets see:
1.Shut up and allow someone like ignatieff give the separatists the tools they need to pull another 1995
2.Call ignatieff on what a threat he is to the country
Do you remember 1995? I do. I almost became a foreigner in my own country against my will. Canada almost went down the tubes because people thought bending over for "soft nationalists" was the way to defend canada. Fuck that, not this time.
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propatria, at 2:05 PM
Nancy picked up endorsements from the 3rd through last place candidates. Didn't help her any. That being said Premier (T)ED has a nice ring to it. Either one.
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anonymous, at 2:55 PM
There's a rumour going around that Preston Manning is going to endorse Ted Morton today. That would be big for him. Unconfirmed though...
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Toronto Tory, at 3:18 PM
I don't see it happening. Preston endorsing Morton would go against his last half dozen newspaper columns.
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Feynman and Coulter's Love Child, at 10:34 PM
Some may feel squeamish about eating it, but rabbit has a fan base that grows as cooks discover how easy they are to raise — and how good the meat tastes.
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Anonymous, at 11:40 PM
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