There Is Only One Liberal Leader

Frank McKenna and John Manley have bowed out, Stephane Dion is playing coy. Sheila Copps has another job. Belinda is pondering it. But the fix is in. The Liberals do not have leadership contests they have royal accension and crowings with laurels of the the victor.

So please all you Liberal Bloggers, and those Blogging Tories, who are given to speculation as to who the new Liberal Party Leader will be.

Stop before you hurt yourselves. There is only one leader for the party.


It was a foregone conclusion, why speculate. It is Michael Igantieff. Now shut up and lets get on with the coronation.

Intelligent designs

If Paul Martin, the current prime minister and Liberal leader, loses on Monday, and Ignatieff hangs on and wins his constituency, he will be very well placed for a leadership contest. "There's no doubt about it. He's going to be one of the Liberal stars, and they're looking for a star," says Aileen McCabe, a parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa for the CanWest News Service. "With Trudeau, there was a glamour to it, and we haven't had much glamour since."

Ignatieff’s path to the top takes the long way

Canada asks Ignatieff: Are you one of us?

Mr Ignatieff had been widely tipped as a future Liberal leader after his surprise entry into the fray. That might explain his willingness to trade his chair in human rights at Harvard University for a backwater in western Toronto, a mixed district of wealthy mansions, poor housing estates and big eastern European communities.

The great bright hope

The idea of Ignatieff’s return to Canada seemed simple enough back in the spring of 2004, when a group of influential Liberal activists - lawyers, businessmen and others - met one night on the porch of Alfred Apps, a Toronto lawyer and party veteran, to discuss the state of the nation. Over some soggy Caesar salad, one of the businessmen, Rocco Rossi, mentioned Michael Ignatieff, whom he had seen giving a captivating lecture on the future of the Liberal imagination at the University of Toronto. “That man could be prime minister one day,” he said. The others agreed.

Oh and did I mention he is the Toronto Star's fave politico. So there, thats all done but the TV show; Liberal Leadership Idol.

Ignatieff says he'll deal with Liberal `mess'

Michael Ignatieff admits the Liberal government's "failings" and tells a voter he'll take a shovel to Ottawa to "try to clean up the mess" if he's elected as MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore.The former Harvard professor is using his rookie status to bluntly criticize the multi-million-dollar Quebec sponsorship scandal as he campaigns to keep the riding, held by Jean Augustine since 1993, in Liberal hands as voters express a desire for change.

Ignatieff's defeat would be our loss
Toronto Star, Canada - 2 Jan 2006
Whatever they do to Liberals across the country, voters in Toronto's Etobicoke-Lakeshore should rally to Michael Ignatieff. Why? ...

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