I expect the budget will be acceptable to everyone. This break should give everyone time to put forward some thoughtful and practical ideas that provide short term and long term relief to our current financial situation. It is my hope that the good of the country takes priority over personal agendas, egos and the quest for power.

Liberals are too tough on Dion.

Was Dion the only liberal in the entire party that knew he was going to attempt an unholy alliance with the Bloc, and hand over the balance of power to the enemies of a United Canada ?

Did Micheal Ignatieff just wake up the morning after, and think " what the --- ",
was he thinking???

And now we're going to be expected to listen to THIS guy, tell us he was not involved in this treasonous plot, nor would he ever have endorsed it if he had known of it, ---- a guy who hasn't even LIVED in Canada, for some twenty five or so of the last thirty years !!

Quite the hard-core Canadian you're proposing to slip in the back door, boys !!

Give us a break !!! How stupid do you think we are !!

The whole pack of you should be thrown out with the hallway trash.

palomino

And they say Harper is a tyrant. At least he won a couple elections. At least he won his own party's leadership convention. So Iggy's just going to declare himself boss? The Liberals get weirder and weirder by the hour.

I support Michael Ignatieff as the best candidate for liberal leadership and potential Prime Minister. He is the only liberal with integrity IMO, and the only one I agree with on the major issues.

This could change everything depending on how the Quebec election goes today.

If the liberals sweep in Quebec and wipe out the PQ... and Ignatieff is the new federal liberal leader... then the bloc has no more purpose and could easily switch in mass to another party... likely the liberals under Ignatieff and if that happens its all over for the Harper conservative government IMO. Harper wouldn't want an election, but I think Ignatieff would, and if that happens it wouldn't look good for Harper. I think the coalition idea is dead in any event.

Harpers only hope to retain power IMO is if the PQ separatists show up well in Quebec keeping things divided in the East part of the country.

Ignatieff is an opportunist who only snuck home to Canada after spending much of his working life in the U.S. and the UK.
He did so only to scoop up the big chair in the Liberal party.
He has NOT paid his dues here in Canada, and I am willing to bet that is coming back to haunt him and the Liberal Party.
I refuse to believe that of all the diehard Liberal party members out there, they can't find one good candidate for the job of leader?
I would bet that there are a lot of P.O.ed party members right now,but it also proves that the Liberal "old boys club" is alive and well!
The party implies that everyone agrees with the crowning of Iggy and I'll bet that is simply NOT true!
This is more a case of them all being told shut up or else!
An extremely self-centered move by a party that appears to be only concerned with power.
They really,really,really,HATE not being government, don't they?

Hard to argue with any of that Andy.

The British sure have a strange view of the situation...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/05/canada

Wow...just had aread on that one Eagleone...pretty bizarre!

The Brits can make porridge scandalous.