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Originally Posted by fotze
Dion to step down this week.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Dion+st...421/story.html
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Stephane Dion plans to step down as early as Monday to pave the way for a permanent successor who could lead a coalition government or lead his party into a federal election early next year if the Harper government is defeated.
While word of his resignation was leaked to reporters and he was not personally confirming it, a fierce battle was underway between top rivals for his job, Toronto MPs Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae, about how the party will go about replacing him. |
I don't think this is really a smart idea. The best thing to do is have Dion take all of the criticism for the coalition and have a leader who can come in afterwards and take it over while keeping his image relatively clean. Instead, the new leader, likely Ignatieff, will still need to deal with the coalition and confidence vote issue early in the new year. He won't be able to continue to be in the background on the whole coalition issue. Hopefully he'll take a more moderate approach.