{"id":2080,"date":"2008-12-05T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2008-12-05T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T04:33:00","slug":"the-race-for-stornoway-err-24-sussex-err-stornoway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"The Race for Stornoway…err, 24 Sussex…err…Stornoway…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’ve taken a break<\/a> from that<\/a> <\/em>horrifying experiment in parliamentary democracy, we can shift our attention back to another<\/em> horrifying experiment in democracy – the Liberal Leadership Race.<\/p>\n

Some are now suggesting<\/a> that this race should be sped up and I think that would be a mistake – we’re picking the man to lead us for the next decade, there’s no need to rush into a decision. If anything, the moral of the last week is that political decisions with long-term implications need to be thought through carefully.<\/p>\n

With that said, I have two quick bullet points for tonight:<\/p>\n

1. Bob Rae appears to have found his wedge issue<\/a>. While Ignatieff<\/span> carefully dances around the issue<\/a>, Rae has embraced the idea of the coalition. It’s certainly a calculated risk by the veteran politician, as many expect the coalition to implode over the holidays. But Rae needs a game changer and this could be it, one way or the other.<\/p>\n

2. For those of you who might want to learn a bit more about Dominic LeBlanc<\/span>, Macleans<\/span> has an excellent profile<\/a> of him in this week’s newsstand<\/span> edition of the magazine – and online<\/a>. The article talks a lot about Dominic’s Liberal roots – growing up with the Trudeau kids and driving Chretien around. Although that’s all interesting, what I take from it is what should be the 10 word theme of his campaign – “Dominic can connect with voters…especially those outside of Toronto<\/em>“. LeBlanc<\/span> would be a leader average Canadians could relate to, and he would be a Liberal leader who could grow the party outside of it’s home turf. If he sticks to that 10 word theme, he should surprise a few people this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that we’ve taken a break from that horrifying experiment in parliamentary democracy, we can shift our attention back to another horrifying experiment in democracy – the Liberal Leadership Race. Some are now suggesting that this race should be sped up and I think that would be a mistake – we’re picking the man to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}