Stéphane Dion “not a leader” – it’s not just a campaign slogan

Despite the fact that NDP leader Jack Layton is campaigning to become Prime Minister of Canada, the idea of that actually happening is confined to Smilin’ Jack and a few ardent party supporters. Liberal MP Bob Rae perhaps gave the best description of Layton when he said that although Jack thinks he’s Barack Obama, he’s really Ralph Nader. No, when the dust settles and the votes are tallied after tomorrow’s election, either Stephen Harper or Stéphane Dion will end up with the top job. To wads of complaints by Canada’s Liberal supporters, Harper began the election campaign going to negative on their leader. Dion was attacked early on as being “not a leader”. The only change that has occurred since then is that Stéphane Dion has proved them right.