It remains to be seen how far the NDP will get in pushing for all parties to engage in meaningful discussion about policy. But if you’re wondering whether there’s already evidence of progress in the first days of the new session of Parliament, look no …
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Impolitical: Rae 1, Layton 0
Let’s have some post-budget fun in bleak majority land! Let’s compare the Rae and Layton reactions to the budget: “Opposition slams Tories’ ‘groundhog budget’.” (Well, some of us look at this kind of thing in a fun way…)
Layton on the budget …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Brian Topp’s initial observations on the new sitting of Parliament include this note on the Libs’ interim leader:(A)s a footnote, Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae was also interesting in these exchanges. H…
Continue readingLPC Keeps Focus on Jobs, Economy
This is good to see. Team Red isn’t being distracted by vote subsidies and other issues nobody cares about.
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Budget Shows Profound Complacency: No Plan for Jobs, No Plan for the Deficit, No Plan for Poverty, No Plan for Sustai…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: First signs of the Bobby Bounce?
On May 25 Bob Rae became interim Leader of the Liberal Party, after a few weeks of speculation that the job would be his. On May 2 the surprising election was held, reducing the Liberals to a mere 18.9% of the votes cast, which sank a few weeks later t…
Continue readingImpolitical: Today in Rae
Today marked the return of Parliament with the election of the new Speaker this afternoon. Life in the Harper majority era is formally beginning. Just want to note a few observations from the past 24 hours here in terms of Rae’s debut as interim leader…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: The ever shrinking Liberal shadow
There’s only so much you can read into the critic portfolios assigned to the third party in the house – especially when numbers dictate that everyone gets something. But the Liberal shadow cabinet deserves a bit of attention, if only because it marks B…
Continue readingImpolitical: Rae interview on Radio-Canada
Rae is interviewed on Les coulisses du pouvoir. He speaks of a culture of division, a lack of solidarity within the Liberal party that is dangerous, about how Liberals differ from the Conservatives and NDP and finally in the last two minutes or so, tha…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Rae Days
Is there anyone in Canada who doesn’t believe that Bob Rae will ultimately wind up as the “permanent” leader of the Liberal Party, once this interim, kabuki thing is over? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that…)- Garry J. Wise, TorontoVisit our …
Continue readingImpolitical: You go, Bob
(source)A little bit of hope after a tough month. Bob Rae is now officially confirmed as Liberal interim leader. “That means our party has to become, which it has always been at its best, a bit of a movement, a movement for change, a movement for prog…
Continue readingLeDaro: Bob Rae Named Interim Leader of the Liberal Party
I hope Bob Rae will do a great job until the new permanent leader is selected. I feel Bob Rae will make a great interim leader given his lengthy public service. I admit too, I think it is good that he is out of the race for permanent leader. Bob Rae…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Rae’s Day
As I’ve said all along, this was the obvious choice for interim leader. Rae is a gifted politician, and will keep the party relevent while it rebuilds.Liberals name Bob Rae interim chiefBob Rae says the Liberal Party should look to a new “generation …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: At last, a real leader!
Congratulations to Bob Rae for being chosen as Interim Leader by the Caucus, and congratulations to the Caucus for choosing him:
Bob Rae was crowned interim leader of the Liberals on Wednesday and handed the daunting task of breathing new life into a p…
CuriosityCat: The Coming Decline of Harper’s Values Coalition
Ipsos is predicting that Harper’s “values-based national coalition” of Tories might have a brighter future than the cobbled-together Mulroney coalition had:
Darrel Bricker of Ipsos
The interesting thing about what happened in this (May 2) election . ….
A BCer in Toronto: Why the interim leader shouldn’t run for permanent leader
There has been much debate in Liberal circles about the insistence by the national executive that the interim leader of the party agree to not run for the permanent leadership, and even more debate with the announcement by Bob Rae yesterday that he wil…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Rae of Light
As I said all along, this is really the best solution to the Liberals’ search for an interim leader. Rae is an outstanding communicator and will keep the party relevant during the search for a younger, permanent leader:Bob Rae won’t run for permanent…
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Bob Rae
Having made a decision which is most likely contrary to section 10(2)(e) of the Liberal Party constitution (which gives every member the right to seek any office in the party), the National Board of Directors will most likely have spoiled the…
Progressive Proselytizing: The Liberal party needs to play a long game on leadership
After its crushing defeat on May 2nd, the Liberal party has some considerable soul searching to do. Not least among its problems is the task that has recently proved most difficult for them: choosing a leader. How it accomplishes this task will be of c…
Continue readingThuggish vandalism
CTV News: Bob Rae is latest victim of car tire vandalismSuch is the way of thinking of thugs and gangbangers, how violence and intimidation are the only necessary tools in human relations. I hope the police catch the buggers involved, and fine them big…
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