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So today Dion pauses long enough to pull the knives out of his back and tell all of us peons his plans for the future.

I'd chip in five bucks if we could get him to stay on for lets say 12 more years...???

I'm in for $5

Thats ten bucks already!!!

Kind of fun being part of "The Huge Consevative Propaganda Machine" isnt it?

Count me in as well

When I read the title I thought I could be the first to say it!



He's the best friend a conservative ever had!

That's true, but if Frank McKenna decides to run for the leadership, he will win and he will be a very good and effective leader for the Libs. In short, the party will be over for the Conservatives.

As good as McKenna may be,it's uphill. To win the Liberals must pick up western urban/suburban ridings and Bloc ridings.If they connect with Bloc riding as well they do in the west,it's a long road back.

But Harper may end up looking like R.B.Bennett.

This used-to-be Nova Scotia boy remembers well 20 years or so back when McKenna's liberals practically swept the NB election, no doubt he is an effective leader. I'm not sure however if the west would jump on the bandwagon.

Not saying they wouldn't, I just don't know.

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This used-to-be Nova Scotia boy remembers well 20 years or so back when McKenna's liberals practically swept the NB election, no doubt he is an effective leader. I'm not sure however if the west would jump on the bandwagon.

Not saying they wouldn't, I just don't know. [/quote]

The west might not jump on the bandwagon en masse but there would certainly be a lot more people in the west voting liberal if McKenna was the leader. Remember Harper only got 20% of the eligible voters and he can thank Dion for any gains he made. Lots of people voted for Harper because he was not Dion and not Layton.

Interested to know if anyone back east is hearing the name Carole Taylor as a possible candidate for the Liberal leadership. For those of you who don't know she was the finance minister in Gordon Campbell's government. A friend of mine from Newfoundland who is in Montreal at the moment mentioned that to me in an email last night, first I have heard of it.

Carole Taylor, MLA, OC (born 1945) is a Canadian journalist and politician. She previosuly served as British Columbia's Minister of Finance.

Carole Taylor graduated from Weston Collegiate in 1964. She later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA in English.

Carole was Miss Toronto 1964, and co-hosted CFTO-TV Toronto�s After Four, a show for teenagers. She later appeared on several other CFTO shows, including Toronto Today, Topic, and her own Carole Taylor Show. She and Percy Saltzman were the first co-hosts of Canada AM when the show premiered on CTV in 1972. She has also been the host of W-FIVE and Pacific Report. Later, she entered the field of journalism which lasted for over 20 years.

Previously, she served as an independent member of Vancouver City Council from 1986 to 1990. She served as Chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade 2001-2002.

She was chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from July 16, 2001, until March 14, 2005, when she resigned in order to seek the nomination of the British Columbia Liberal Party in that province's 2005 election.

On May 17, 2005, she was elected to Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2005 election as the member representing Vancouver-Langara. On June 16, 2005, she was named Minister of Finance.

As the Minister of Finance, she signed up 100% of all BC public sector contracts before they were set to expire. Perhaps her most notable achievement was the introduction of the first carbon tax anywhere in North America.

On November 30, 2007, she announced that she would not be running for re-election in the 2009 election. She was courted to run for mayor of Vancouver in the 2008 municipal election, she announced on January 8, 2008 that she would not run.

She is married to former Vancouver mayor Art Phillips.

The scary part about Stephane stepping down is that the Liberals may choose a capable leader who will lead them out of the wilderness.

I was personally hoping he'd stick to his "I'm no quitter" stance - and then the Liberals would need another devisive leadership race to oust him.

I fear the next fellow they choose might be cut from the same cloth (ideologically) but - be more electable.

That would bother me.