Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff would like to be the next prime minister of Canada. It is this ambition that causes rumours that he will vote against the Conservatives’ spring budget and with the help of his “coalition” friends, force an election.
Of course being in power is the hope of all Liberals; the party once known as the Natural Governing Party exists only to govern. But the realists among them would make their first priority finding a new leader; someone who could actually defeat the Tories.
