Canadian Liberal Leadership Election 2013

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Could any of them realistically drag them back to second or even... government?

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Is Rae's Ontario government a bit like how the North of England see the Conservatives since Thatcher?

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I think Christy Clark of BC would be the perfect federal Liberal leader. She has all the necessary ingredients - she's perky, zany and bouncy and doesn't have any policy ideas and has good ties to the tories so she can attract disaffected Tory voters out west. What's not to like? The Liberals need a bouncy cheerleader to lead them out of the wilderness.

She's horrendously unpopular, right-wing and the BC Liberals aren't really like the federal Liberals at all, they're not even affliated.

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At least Deborah Coyne has presented serious proposals and seems like the kind of person who could appeal to the "too educated to vote Tory, too bourgeois to vote NDP" demographic (if only she had ever been elected to anything!)

Basically the same as our Liberal Party.

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Can anyone tell this uninformed Brit what's so great about Justin Trudeau?

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I'm watching the speech from yesterday, and I can't quite pick up on the intonation in French, so i'm not sure if it's his natural way, but why does Justin sound so patronising (even for a politician) when he speaks English?