...custom for prime ministers who achieve office without being elected to go to the voters within about six months. Mr. Dion is pioneering the constitutional novelty of assuming office on the explicit promise to leave within six months, never to face the...
...Edward Blake as the only Liberal leader who did not serve as prime minister. Michael Ignatieff, the front-runner to succeed Mr. Dion, does not wish to be seen to take the leadership undemocratically or with a sense of entitlement. Bob Rae, the next...
...pact under which the Liberals would share cabinet seats with the New Democratic Party for the first time in history, with Mr. Dion handing over the prime minister's job in May to whichever candidate – Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae or Dominic Leblanc – wins...
...Liberal Party of Canada, or of Mr. Dion? Is it, indeed, in the best political interests of the Liberal Party of Canada, or of Mr. Dion? If the Liberals are truly set, however, on defeating Mr. Harper, and every indication suggests they are, then the...
Background
Stéphane Maurice Dion, PC, MP (born September 28, 1955, in Quebec City, Quebec) is the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons. Since 1996, he has been the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Laurent–Cartierville in Montreal.
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