Posted on 16/05/08
Awaiting Stéphane Dion, the next iteration
Stéphane Dion has been counted out before - several times. When, after the near-disastrous 1995 referendum on secession, he was introduced by Jean Chrétien as the new minister-saviour for national unity, Quebec was in disbelief. Him? The professor who had urged that Quebec did not need and should not have extensive new powers? He rebuked Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson after Meech Lake failed, for saying that the status quo was worse than secession. Dion? Get serious.
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