Liberals now getting a taste of their own medicine?

News now emerge that Stephane Dion (left) of the Liberals Party has agreed to step aside immediately once an interim leader is found. His decision seems to have much to do with the fact that the coalition idea is not well supported by Canadians, and Liberal insiders think that the problem has much to do with Dion, who was dismissed by the voters on October 14, and had subsequently announced his resignation, initially effective in May when the Liberals meet for a leadership convention.

Liberal insiders are pushing hard to have Michael Ignatieff (right) replace Dion as the interim leader, and continue their push to topple the Conservatives minority government. All seems well inside the Liberal party, except another favoured candidate for the party’s top job, Bob Rae.

Personally, I’m not interested in the in-fighting within a political party that I am not a member of. However, since the Liberal-led coalition still has a chance of governing Canada, and Ignatieff and Rae could potentially become our prime minister, it is interesting to see what Bob Rae (below left) has to say about the idea of appointing Ignatieff to take the leadership helm from Dion:

“It's better to have the party as a whole involved in finding a solution than it is to having a solution imposed from above.”

“I don't think that coronations are generally very successful in political parties. I think most people believe that it's better to have a contest, it's better to have a choice.”

“No other democratic party would do it this way, and I think we have to think very carefully about finding the right process.”

The rest of this piece of news can be found at the following link:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Canada/9009740.html

Let me get this straight – when the coalition formed and tried to topple the current government, are opponents of the coalition using the same logic as Rae? We said the country as a whole should decide, not several people sitting behind a backroom. We said the country’s voters need to have a choice, rather than being jammed down the throat with a new prime minister. We said democratically, choosing a government should be left for an election is the fairest process…

And now, Rae is using the same logic, when the table is turned against him, when he is robbed of a chance to take over Canada? How soon you forget, Mr. Rae?

Mind you, I agree with almost all the points Bob Rae has raised here, but this agreement only goes further to show how anti-democratic is this idea of a Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition is: it is not an idea that Canadians can vote on, it is not a fair contest where all stake-holders can argue for the voters’ support, and it is not a democratic process. The ironic thing is, among the two potential liberal leader, Bob Rae is the one who says the coalition will topple the government no matter what…

What a sad state our country is in, if the bulk of its leaders can be so hypocritical and are so lacking in wisdom.