The Canadian National Newspaper: NAU supporting Stéphane Dion to resign after Liberals choose new leader

Stéphane Dion announced on Monday, 20 October 2008, that he will step down as head of the Liberals after a leadership convention, blaming the party's losses in the federal election mainly on Conservative "propaganda" against his Green Shift carbon tax.

"I will remain as leader in order to ensure a smooth and successful transition," Dion said. Dion made the announcement at a news conference in Ottawa, following his party's poor showing in the Oct. 14 federal election.

However, while Dion blames the Conservative's representation of the Liberal "Green Shift", it is apparent that Dion muzzles his candidates on speaking up for Canada on Stephen Harper's clandestine North American Union (NAU) agenda. In so doing, Dion thwarted the ability of Liberals to speak about bread-and-butter related Canadian sovereignty issues, which helped to propel previous Liberal campaigns into victory,

In the worst results in terms of popular vote for the Liberal party in more than 100 years, the Liberals took 76 seats in the election. Going into the election, the Liberals held 95.

The Conservatives formed another minority government after they won 143 seats in the House of Commons. The NDP secured 37 seats and the Bloc Québécois took 50. Two seats in the House were earned by Independents.

The Liberals captured only 26.2 per cent of the popular vote — two points lower than the party's disastrous 1984 finish with John Turner at the helm and only four points ahead of the party's worst-ever results in 1867.

Dion blamed the results in part on a Conservatives campaign that he says created a false picture of who he was. However, it is apparent that Dion's collusion with Canada's largest corporations on the NAU (along with the Conservatives) is to blame.

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