Release the Hounds

Citron Dion had months if not years to prepare for this election and now that the writ has been dropped how do we find his state of preparedness? Where do we find him starting his campaign? In the two of the most electoral liberal safe havens in the country, in riding of South Ottawa, and Westmont on the island of Montreal. You had only to look at the flagging face of David McGuinty’s surprise and bewilderment at Dion’s opening rally, to see that even his own wife had trouble manufacturing enthusiasm for his misguided strategy. Day two he is having an emergency dental appointment before resuming his campaign in Montreal's south shore, and if that isn’t enough to illustrate how poorly managed and prepared the LPC is to fight an election, then witness their scrambling over broken glass to come up with a last minute 29 year-old jet chartered from Air Inuit, to examine how committed he is to setting a shinning example of leadership with his vaunted “carbon reduction / green shift” (milk cow) proposal, with the least environmentally friendly mode of transport available to any of the national parties. Even his Provincial counterpart, Dalton McGuinty declined to endorse Dion. Yes the “Nutty Professor” is indeed off to a alarming quick start showing all the urgency and desperation, of the one who is the chased at the annual fox hunt.