The Play's The Thing

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "What We Saw":

This reads like the review of a Broadway play.

Jack Layton's huge success in the last election was a combination of three things: his personal message, his personality, and his brave fight; the final implosion of the Bloc Quebecois that was never going to be able to do anything on the national stage and hence its supporters in Quebec would see no return for their investment; the Liberal leader was a disgrace as a politician, which he never was and never could be - he should have stuck with academe.

The NDP can do nothing but lose seats in coming elections. Hopefully Harper's party will do likewise. The Liberal party is lost at sea in a great fog and it will take them years to reassemble.

So where does that leave us?

In between an arrogant majority, a socialist party that will have no choice but to become so centrist that it will be unrecognizable from its roots, and a party that will drift for years.

This is not a happy scenario.

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Au contraire: this scenario has been ripe for change
these many years.

Yesterday,it happened.

My poster makes the same mistake so many do.

They dismiss the most important factor; the will of the people. Those who vote and those who don't.

Tom Mulcair does not make that mistake.

Yesterday,he said; "young people are involved, All over Canada and in other parts of the world, young Canadians are working and showing they care. They are just not involved in their country's politics"

So how hard can it be to inspire the young? To attract the best and the brightest wherever they can be found?

How long will it be before history becomes a requisite subject once again in the high school curriculum?

And public service a task worth undertaking?

We shall see.