[Enoch Root]

My concern with Trudeau is that we really have no idea what we might be getting. He has no track record to assess, no background where we can actually see his actions as opposed to sound bites.

My impression of him is that he will be like his father - far too left-leaning.

For those that laud the Chretien/Martin liberals, they did what smart governments do, they campaigned from the left and governed from the right. Fiscally, it was like having a good conservative government in power.

The same can not be said about the Trudeau years. He was a socialist who pretended to be a liberal in order to get into power. His left wing fiscal policy was devastating to this country, and it was his mess that the Chretien liberals get so much credit for cleaning up.

The conservatives have not been great, but anyone that thinks a Trudeau-led liberal government would be anything like the Chretien/Martin era is going to be bitterly disappointed, IMO.

I don't see Mulcair gaining any traction at all - he was simply in the right place at the right time to take advantage of some momentum and sympathy created by and for Layton. But now, with a bit of time having passed, he will have to carry the load himself and I don't think he has it in him to make much progress.