Natural Governing Party

So Canada's self annointed natural governing party, the Liberals, have a new leader. Stephane Dion was a dark horse who upset the apple cart and has sent the old boys network and insiders scrambling to find out where they went wrong. His campaign colour was green, in keeping with his former post as Minister of the Environment. He espouses Kyoto and sustainable development. Good on you. Trouble is he now has to win an election to implement long overdue ideas. The Liberals under Martin were ousted in part over inaction, the environment right up there. Dion is emasculated by Harper owing to Dion's consultative role over the "Quebecois are a nation" motion (headline news in 22 countries apparently). Dion now becomes chief communicator for the environmental message. He strikes me as a technocrat, an academic who will struggle to convey his message no matter the validity of the ideas. The Green Party, with second place under their belt in the recent by-election and 26% of the vote there, must be licking their chops. The Liberal record and the Conservative stone-walling can only proffer opportunity for Canada's naturally soon to be governing party. The party is over, its time to govern and let nature gain its rightful place, at the top of our agenda.