The Libs are now faced with running another costly leadership race when a good number of the candidates from the last one haven't yet paid off their debt. The party is in debt due to the election and their inability to raise funds from the grassroots, and will now be forced into more debt to hold the convention. Rae and Iggy are sure to both run again for the leadership, and are sure to fracture the party further.
In the meantime, nobody in the Libs will be in any hurry to force another election when they don't have a leader, have no defined policies, and have no money. Harper can govern as if he has a majority for another year, at least.
And then, at some point in the future, the Libs will be forced to explain to the populace why they "let the Conservatives continue when they now claim they were so evil" yet again - and will have to run an election with limited money, and a fractured party.
The only thing keeping them alive is the Liberal brand, which remains strong in TO, Montreal, and Atlantic Canada.
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