Let me be the first to point out that, once again, my votes did not carry the day so I can assert the ability to spot a very bad stretch when I see one. And, just so I can also be among the first to point it out, between the massive win in Newfoundland yesterday for an anti-Harper Tory and today’s ditching of any vestige of a right wing agenda in Ontario, I see the message this week for the Prime Minister is not good.
If there were any chance that a leader – through some miracle, mystery or intrigue – might arise within the Liberal Party of Canada who grasps the responsibility of the demands of the nation as opposed to continuing the recent history of party obsession with in-fighting and pop causes, this might be the beginning of a golden era for them and the beginning of the end of that bit of history started by the splitting of the Tories which will end, as these things do, in ugly dismembered fashion.
But that leader is not there. What strange times.