CTV.ca reports that Stephane Dion is “often” compared to Trudeau. “Often”! By someone besides them, presumably, and “often”! Although they don’t say who “often” says that so darned “often”.
Dion has been an MP since winning a byelection in a Montreal-area riding in March 1996.
His view of federalism has often been compared to that of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, although Dion dismisses any similarities to the late Liberal icon.
Jim Travers of the leftist Toronto Star was having an cerebral orgasm this morning:
[…] With an election defeat just behind and a critical leadership decision just ahead, divided Liberals are looking for lost chemistry. What they are finding, particularly after the Friday of the Two Professors, are Big Brains with uncertain political prospects.
Not since 1968 when Pierre Trudeau provoked a mania within the party and across the country has a Liberal leadership contest showcased so much cerebral cortex. With Michael Ignatieff and StÃ
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