Tag: 2008 General Election

Dion to politicize Listeriosis

According to Liberal sources close to Stephane Dion, the Liberal leader plans to visit Walkerton, ON the site of the E.Coli outbreak that killed a number of people during the time Mike Harris was the PC Premier of Ontario.

Dion will try to link the recent Listeriosis deaths to Stephen Harper’s government arguing that the government somehow mishandled the safety of Canadians.

Despite this, I don’t think Maple Leaf Foods will be calling Dion to testify on their behalf as they face a class-action lawsuit from Canadians affected by the food-borne microbial outbreak.

Dion’s campaign faces delays

A correspondent close to the Dion campaign writes saying that Dion’s campaign plane won’t be ready until Wednesday or later this week. The Conservatives and the NDP started this campaign by hitting the ground running, or in this case, hitting the sky flying.

Dion is currently is Montreal where his team is busing it while Harper and Layton are doing two or three events a day.

As my source writes, “the fact that his plane isn’t ready might be a metaphor for [the] campaign”

Is Dion’s plane snafu indicative of poor leadership or just plain sabotage by his team? Or are the carbon credits held up at a central processing facility in Topeka, Kansas?