Quebec voters reject Stephane Dion's Liberal Party impostors in by-elections

by Peter Tremblay

	Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion.

Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion acknowledged to reporters as he arrived at the International Plowing Match in Eastern Ontario that lop-sided by-elections losses were "tough" for his party, “But we are a great party and we'll go on to win the general election."

Dion dismissed suggestions, that his leadership was on the line with a curt "not at all." He said that the Liberals' candidate in Outremont, Jocelyn Coulon, had been defeated because voters believed unrealistic claims from the New Democrats about a withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, the NDP's star candidate, Thomas Mulcair, took the riding decisively from the Liberals, who had held it for most of the past century.

The by-elections, can be viewed to be a kind of decisive no confidence vote against Mr. Dion's leadership. The Liberal loss in such a sure Liberal stronghold has Outremont, right in Mr. Dion's own province, shows a substantively weakened federal Liberal party.

Quebec voters, are relatively educated about politics, and appreciate leadership that can present a vision with sincerity, integrity, and passion. It is apparent, that Mr. Dion does not have those leadership qualities in abundance. He, like is predecessor before him, is only driven by his pursuit of power, rather than by a vision of either Quebec or of Canada.

M. Dion's apparent ego driven attitude, was revealed in the following quotation: "I want to be prime minister of this country," Dion said. "Mr. Layton will never be prime minister of this country and he says anything that the people want to hear. I cannot do that."

Yes, that's right Mr. Dion. The NDP made a sincere attempt to appeal to the voters, based upon principle and values that are shared by the majority of Quebec. You, Mr. Dion, cannot apparently inspire such support, because you speak for the corporate elites who are the principal funders of your political party, and are not in defence of Canada.

That is the reason that Mr. Dion has been silent on defending Canada against the North American Union (NAU) Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agenda. Mr. Dion is not in the tradition of Liberal Leaders like Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Lester B. Pearson, or Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who sought to defend Quebec and Canada.

Mr. Dion's leadership, has demonstrated that he is not a leader that Canadians can rely on. It appears that Quebec voters saw through Mr. Dion's pretensions of leadership in areas which include the environment. Mr. Dion has in contrast, shown a total lack of sincerity and loyalty in general to the people of Canada, and which did not inspire the voters of Quebec to support the apparent descent of the Liberal party, in its current state as a clique of petty opportunists, double-talkers, and frauds.

Members of the Liberal party need face up to the decay of a once great political champion of Canada, into cliques of corrupted greed-driven opportunists who would sell their soul for a mess of pottage, to right wing U.S. corporate and other such venal interests. Failure of the members of the Liberal Party of Canada to take back control of their party from apparent paid operatives of Conservative Party interests, could prove disastrous in the next federal election, for Liberals who seek to renew their political party.

Dion's Liberals were only able to collect 29 per cent of the vote in Outremont, where they have traditionally been strong, and fared far worse in the other two Quebec by-elections.

In Roberval--Lac-Saint-Jean, which was won by the Conservatives, Liberals placed third, with 9.6 per cent of the vote, and in St. Hyacinthe-Bagot, which was retained by the Bloc Québécois, Liberals came in fourth, behind the NDP, with only 7.4 per cent of the vote.

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