Stephane Dion

Stephane Dion has resigned as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. I like Mr. Dion and I'm sorry that he had to resign but he did have to resign. He didn't have the support of the Liberal caucus and despite what a good many bloggers might believe, I don't think that he had the support of the majority of the membership of the Party.

What does Mr. Dion's failure have to say about the state of politics and the state of Canada? I believe that Mr. Dion has the intelligence and honesty to be a great leader of Canada. I also believe that an anti-french sentiment in English Canada is partially to blame for his failure on election day. Another source of his failure is that the Conservative Party was very successful in portraying a negative image of Stephane Dion this also fed into the anti-french attitude of many people. The media was also seduced by the negative image of Mr. Dion. My experience as I have written before is that the media is very lazy unwilling to do any work to get to the truth so if you provide them a story that is easy to report they will run with it. We live in a very instant society so rather than going past the 10 second clip on TV, the headline in the newspaper or online most people will accept what they are bombarded with and won't take the time to explore the issues.

The Liberals failed to counter the negative advertising until too late and Stephane Dion was doomed. I want to make it clear that I don't think that the Conservative Party did anything wrong, it is the CPC's job to win and it did its best to do just that. It is the voters of Canada who have to demand better from their political parties, go past the negative advertising, read the party platforms, listen to the politicians, read the entire article and not just the headline, read an opposing viewpoint and most importantly of all get out and vote.