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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
1.) According to recent polls any of the top three liberal leadership candidates would fair poorly against Harper. As it appears now the party would do much better with no Leader. So I don't agree with the statment that the winner of this leadership race will be a shoe in for the next PM
2.) As for a smaller group of delegates deciding this....well....it is fairly typical of the Libs. Instead of the grass roots deciding, they choose a delegate system where in order to become a delegate you need to pay the $995.00 registration fee plus all the other expenses, ie: Hotel, Transportation. This makes it very expensive for the average joe to participate in the process and since it is in Montreal......not a lot of people from the West will be flying down to participate.
3.) My biggest fear is that Bob Rae wins this thing. The guy almost Bankrupted Ontario and is a complete left wing yahoo. His platform is basically...."I have experience...vote for me". None of the other Candidates have really called him out on what he did to Ontario. Personally I think that if he wins.....the Libs will be much worse off. Having said that.....I don't put much trust in my fellow eastern Canadians when it comes to making logical political decisions ie: voting for the right person, not the ideological party.
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As much as I dislike Rae it is unfair to suggest it was him or his party that led Ontario into the pits. All of Canada was in a raging recession at that time and all provinces felt the heat.....including Calgary and Alberta. Many in Alberta went on work sharing and wage cutting excersizes...yet noone wants to bring those fun experiences up.