Federal Liberal MPs flocked to Winnipeg on Tuesday for the first day of a crucial caucus meeting where they will plan for the fall election that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to call later this week.
The election call, which could come as early as Friday, is expected to schedule Oct. 14 as an election date.
The anticipated election has shifted the agenda for the three-day caucus meeting from preparing for a new parliamentary session to a strategy session to formulate a plan to attack the Conservatives while healing internal party rifts that have surfaced in recent weeks.
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5 comments:
I think we will need more Dion photos with Iggy to help quell the weak leadership issue. Our emphasis should be on a strong team approach. A direct Harper-Dion comparison is a killer for us.
We have a team and that's a good thing, especially in comparision to the Conservatives who are, in large part, a one man show.
Agreed. On the question of strong leadership we get creamed. The discussions and focus have to move away from Dion, otherwise we are dead in the water.
Now now, that's not what I'm saying! Dion is a fine Leader and we need to keep pointing that out -- Canadians need to hear that -- but we have others too who can showcase the Party.
I don't know about the "Dion is a fine Leader" thing. A decent man, no doubt. A good minister, yes. But he hasn't been able to fulfill the Leader's role.
I always hoped for Dion to win the leadership, but I thought he would lead a cultural revolution in the Liberal Party. Seems now that that's a bridge too far for pretty much anyone on this Earth. That sleaze factor and just too many past promises broken (and not just some of the 3rd-tier promises, but the big doozie's, the ones that whole campaigns were run on) have caught up with them.
Is it still the case that, for whichever party, that there is more that unites us than divides us? Of course that's the case, but you'd never know it in today's politics in Canada. It's so petty, and the Liberals, to my mind, are the pettiest of them all.
If Dion loses, and he goes, Iggy is the way to go. There's just too much material to use on Bob Rae.
InTrade currently has the Liberals at 25% to win the most seats, surely b/c of the latest polls. Would probably be a good time to pick up Liberal stock, because I'm sure there will be polls that show a narrower gap in the days and weeks ahead.
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