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From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Latest comment posted at 2:44 PM EDT 28/03/08

At a time when the federal Liberals should be focused on preparing for a battle with Stephen Harper's Conservatives, they appear more interested in fighting with each other. ...Read the full article

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  1. pierre lefebvre from Brossard, Canada writes: A wind of malingering crosses LPC skies and they have only themselves to blame. The distrust is deep and will drive LPC toward a catastrophic election outcome. Only LPC does not see the light and will suffer consequences. A misfit leader is not the solution.
  2. M Poland from Calgary, Canada writes: I should think that "If they're not careful, an already fractured party will become too broken to seriously compete in the next election." means that the LPC are already too broken to seriously compete in the next election. Period.
  3. William Ross from Victoria BC, Canada writes: It might be time for Dion to walk out to the edge of the next ice flow up north!
  4. Randal Oulton from Canada writes: I'm not sure about the propriety of the Globe and Mail trying to interfere or influence the internal affairs of any political party.
  5. Chili Palmer from Calgary, Canada writes: The point of the article is that the die has been cast for this election, and it's better to shoot for most of what one wants, as opposed to sabotaging the effort. It is similar to the prospect of religious right voters staying home instead of voting for McCain.

    While I don't like the Liberals chances at present, a lot of things can change. It would be foolish to write off a yet-to-be-scheduled election.

    Mr. Oulton, this was an editorial. By definition, it is supposed to 'give an opinion on a topical issue.'
  6. pierre lefebvre from Brossard, Canada writes: With friends like these G&M proposes. During his press conference Dion suggested that all is fine and we need more discipline. Yet both political staff and apparatchiks has been contradicting Dion`s message. Point-counterpoint usually occurs when two people debate an issue and show conflicting views. Dion uses double-talk on every issue in House of Commons and on the road and plays both roles. If we are to believe the press and political pundits there is more than undisciplined in Quebec LPC organization. Pink-colored glasses won`t do it Stephane. Lack of adequate leadership is cause for open strife in LPC-Quebec and Dion is the lightning rode of discontent. Shortly, public opinion polls will show how wrong Dion is in this matter.
  7. neil b from edmonton, Canada writes: Once again..with feeling this time....PM Harper authored the framework for the Clarity Act. Dion plagiarized it and brought before the House of Commons. At that time the Conservatives passed it without any fuss because it was the right thing to do for the country, as the little thug from shawinigate was asleep at the switch (referendum vote) .
  8. JDSmith ... from Toronto, Canada writes: The next election should be run on re-creating Canadian Business. Businesses that have been lost due to mis-management, stock market greed and lax foreign ownership laws.

    Canada has lost much control over high-tech and resource based industries. These revenues will leave Canada.

    Canadians should be telling Canada's leaders that they need to re-build not large business (which ship jobs and manufacturing off-shore) but small business can develop technical, resource, or service leverage that bring foreign recurring revenue into the country. This country needs to build more RIMs.

    Mr. Harper will not advance the interests of Canadian R&D.

    Mr. Harper is focused selling off Canadian R&D just like Dieffenbaker did with the Arrow. RadarSat2 and CanadaArm will go to the Americans because Conservatives just don't get it.

    This is not leadership... this is $$!
  9. Open Mike from Vancouver, Canada writes: Well, Stephane Dion has to have something going for him. In the leadership convention he beat both the veteran pol Bob Rae and the formidable Michael Ignatieff, and both were considered before the final tally to be the two finalists in that contest. Consider, also, Alberta's Premier Ed Stelmach, another dark-horse leadership winner. And, though pretty much written off before the recent Alberta election, last I heard, he totally creamed the opposition parties.
  10. lotusland maritimer from Canada writes: The electoral system in Canada is an absurd joke. First we have the grotesque nonsense of the Bloc Quebecois which ought not to be permitted to run in a federal election anyway as it refuses to run candidates in all 3OO ridings. Get out of federal politics period. I am not adressing its ideology or raison d etre I dont care about that but the fact that it is not Canada wide means it has no consitutional right to run if federal elections. You must run in most provinces and most ridings to be considered a federal party. This is a failure of nerve and any understanding of a federal system is non existent. They have no busienss in the House of Commons not because they are separatists but because they are not all provincial . The Green Party is quite different it at least runs in all ridings therefora has a claim to be a national federal party. Its problem is that it identifies itself as a progressive party which is rather redundant and unnecessary as there are already four of five other so called progressive parties. It clearly doesnt know what its talking about as it is supposed to be an anti pollution anti GM anti internal combustion engine anti urbanisation anti clear cutting anti factory farming anti bottom dragnet fishing anti strip mining etc ie against any environmentally modern technological destruction of the planet or at least what belongs to Canada of it. As a progressive party its unnecessary as a ecological nature preserving movement absolutely vital. It got confused somewhere about what it stands for. I left the three tired old irrelevant behemoths of a dead dinosaur last. The Liberals and the Conservatives and the NDP are collectively responsible for all the calamities despoiling Canadas sacred trust of keeping a sixth of the planet livable vital and sustainable in Forestry Mining Agriculture and maintaining the Canada Health Act. This they failed to do so they are not irrelevant but dead. They sooner they expire the better.
  11. pierre lefebvre from Brossard, Canada writes: To Lotusland maritimer: If I hear you NDP and Green Party would have no place in Canada considering their limited impact and restricted funds to do campaign across Canada. And they do not have 308 candidates. Only crooked Liberals and secretive Conservatives would make sense. Nice for democratic expression!
  12. Still Learning at 77 from Canada writes: Is Michael Ignatieff to pro American to be leader of the liberal party? Would the US like him as PM? He has spent a lot of time out of the country, did he come here to be involved in our political system.? The man is just to darn slick for my taste.
  13. pierre lefebvre from Brossard, Canada writes: To still learning at 77: I wonder wheather Harper or Ignatieff is the more profoundly planted friendly politician leader by the USA administration?
  14. p lailey from vancouver, Canada writes: Ok, how long does it take to get candidates in place in all of the ridings? How many years does Dion need to do this and to pay off his leadership debts? If he can't even run his own party how can he expect Canadians to trust him to run the country.

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