If Dion steps aside who should replace him and why?

Colpy

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I've narrowed my selection down to three to press my constituency worker on voting for, should there be a convention for a new leader: Frank McKenna, Ralph Goodale and Gerard Kennedy (as my dark horse).

I don't think Goodale will run though, since he had the chance last time and declined, and like Dion, he is far too honest and nice a person to get into the heat of a leadership contest. McKenna has the pedigree and the tenacity to steamroll Harper, and his right-of-centre beliefs would work well with PCs and complement the many left-leaning Liberals now in the caucus. He's got a ton of experience, is an excellent debator, isn't from Quebec and is one of the few people who won't be seen as either 'ivory tower' or egghead by voters or Conservative adsters.

Kennedy is interesting in that he has the look, the background and now some experience both federally and provincially (and was pretty successful as Education Minister) to succeed, especially with his 'common-guy' upbringing and his charitible work. I wonder if like Dion though if he has the ruthlessness needed to get into the face of the Conservatives, especially since he's been pretty quiet since the whole leadership convention. Sigh, if only Kennedy had finished in third last time out...

P.S. Aspiring leaders, please do not pose with your shoulders in the air shrugging again, as that didn't go so well the last time. We've now seen how much some Conservatives enjoy using MS Paint... :lol:

Good choices all.....
 

lone wolf

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Spoken like a true NDP strategist.... :)

Again ... your opinion. The far right is why Reform was born. PC was getting just a little TOO progressive. Old money doesn't like change. If some rabidly right party (CHP?) moves into the gap, a Conservative vote will be split again. If that's NDP strategy ... maybe Layton really SHOULD be PM....:p
 
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Colpy

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Again ... your opinion. The far right is why Reform was born. PC was getting just a little TOO progressive. Old money doesn't like change. If some rabidly right party (CHP?) moves into the gap, a Conservative vote will be split again. If that's NDP strategy ... maybe Layton really SHOULD be PM....:p

I was kidding you know..........the votes are all in the middle, any move out of the middle either to the right or the left destroys the party's chances........that is why the NDP never gets anywhere......
 

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I still like Frank McKenna, but I doubt he will come back to public life.....shame.

I guess my second choice would be Bob Rae but he carries the baggage of governing during a recession but perhaps in these times it makes him more qualified.
 

lone wolf

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I was kidding you know..........the votes are all in the middle, any move out of the middle either to the right or the left destroys the party's chances........that is why the NDP never gets anywhere......

Do still have that stupid Marxist image of NDP? NDP's biggest problem is in shaking a rabid unionist illusion.
 

Socrates the Greek

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good day to you all, past history has shown that people repeatedly said I am not interested and turned out to do the opposite. Great strategy in fooling the opposition.................
Brian Tobin had a strong presence in the House of Commons during his peak......

We will never know the truth as to who will be the power leader the Liberals desperately need.......until the last minute...................One thing we Canadians need a government who will truly take us through these bad economic times, with out lying and cheating the tax payers............
 
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Colpy

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Do still have that stupid Marxist image of NDP? NDP's biggest problem is in shaking a rabid unionist illusion.

You forget, back when the NDP really was the party of labour and western farmers, I voted for them regularly........

Now they are the party of artsy-fartsy, downtown ivory-tower academics, idiots, rabid anti American Jew haters, Svend Robinson, and whatever the "intellectual" fad is this week.

It ain't the "left" part that really bothers me.
 

lone wolf

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You forget, back when the NDP really was the party of labour and western farmers, I voted for them regularly........

Now they are the party of artsy-fartsy, downtown ivory-tower academics, idiots, rabid anti American Jew haters, Svend Robinson, and whatever the "intellectual" fad is this week.

It ain't the "left" part that really bothers me.

Say, do you recall Sharkey saying our economy was in good shape and it can't happen here ... then the about face - or the attack on the arts community ... then all of a sudden he became a patron. Whatever the fad of the week is? I think it was the guns, the self-propandizing and maybe something Freudian....
 

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Funny thing ... I don't see the word "solution" in there. You're fishing between the planks....

Sorry, I read to much into your statement, I'm sure you'd agree that it is the least likely solution to a depression even though that is not in the cards....in my opinion.;-)
 

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Sorry, I read to much into your statement, I'm sure you'd agree that it is the least likely solution to a depression even though that is not in the cards....in my opinion.;-)

Comforting to know for the moment the Canadian Banks are in much more stable position, therefore Canada may get a slow down but nothing to the global economic slid or maybe depression like in some countries.............. The nationalization of some European and American Banks is a good start.
 

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Comforting to know for the moment the Canadian Banks are in much more stable position, therefore Canada may get a slow down but nothing to the global economic slid or maybe depression like in some countries.............. The nationalization of some European and American Banks is a good start.
And all your fear mongering is BS.