Canada: Parties: Montreal Gazette says parties bereft, names Bob Rae & Michael Ignatieff to head Fed Libs, replace 'Mr Dithers'

It's a good read, this edition of Montreal's English-language daily The Gazette, a good read at least in the tongue-in-cheek department, if like unacknowledged gentle irony, as exhibited in this editorial, July 25, 2005.

It claims there's no comeback for Bernard Landry to head the provinical separtist Parti Québecois; and the eleven standing candidates have little stature.

It says the Québec provincial Liberals under former national Conservative leader Jean Charest, won't be returned to office in the next election as head of the Québec government.

The Fed Conservatives are dead in the water, it pokes, with Stephen Harper at the helm; most Canadians just don't want him.

Then it takes on You-know-who of the You-know-whos Party:

After 15 years of striving, Paul Martin finally won the Liberal crown, but the head on which it sits has been teetering ever since. Where he was once widely considered the ideal Liberal leader - smarter than Jean Chretien and better at math than Pierre Trudeau, as the finance minister who smote the deficit demon - he has become Mr. Dithers since coming to power. More than half the respondents in the most recent national poll said they'd prefer someone else as prime minister.

Then The Gazette speculates on two possible "philosopher kings" either of whom mite woooosh their way into power leading the brave brigades of the Fed Libs, in Trudeau-style. Then it demurs on its proposal.

Picture looks grim from where sits Gzette. - Owlb

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