Gerard Kennedy's stirring vision of Canada's future

This recent Liberal leadership candidate has called for Canada to become the first international country: i.e. no country at all.

And pundits consider Kennedy a "front-runner". What Trudeau began with multiculturalism let no person tear asunder, though that's what's happening to the country itself.

I wonder if Conservative pundit and author Adam Daifallah had his tongue in his cheek when he wrote this (I suspect not):

Gerard Kennedy, the man to beat

Well, there certainly isn't a shortage of Liberal leadership candidates. The candidate to watch is Gerard Kennedy, the ex-Ontario education minister. He's not that well known outside Ontario, but this is a good thing for him.

He's already being called a "dark horse" but I would go further and say he's the front-runner.

This is an impressive guy who is exactly what the Liberals need right now. As more Liberals meet him, the more they'll realize it. He's smart, bilingual, young and most importantly has absolutely zero baggage from the Martin/Chretien years. He's the guy who will actually spend the next 5-10 years solving the Liberal Party's problems, which is what the next leader will have to do. Watch Kennedy get a lot of support from those who believe the writing is on the wall for the next election (read: Harper majority) and are willing to do the long-term thinking-type of rebuilding that is required.

Update: If this is true Canada is in even bigger trouble than I'd thought (full text not online).

With the weakening or loss over the past several decades of a belief in the reality of any overall American national identity...

Mark C.

Posted by markc at April 28, 2006 03:53 PM