latest dispatch from the Hill Times is a really damned good read for anyone who likes the themes we touch on in this blog. Besides the overall thrust of supporting Ignatieff's original, now abandoned, idea to get rid of the position of "Quebec Lieutenant," it has a few little tidbits of Liberal gossip that I didn't catch.

• Georges Lafontaine, the guy who came third in Pontiac was Coderre's Man. Really? What was he thinking? that Race was sewn up months ago. Copps accuses him of bending the rules to allow a starLafontaine's nomination which turned out to be dumb for two reasons.
• NDP candidate Francoise Boivin (a former liberal MP) was pushed out to make way for 'Star' candidate. Then she joined the NDP, what a surprise.

We should take this with a grain of salt: smearing La Traitre Coderre, making him seem disloyal, incompetent, unethical and incompetent would be the approriate thing to do at this point, and Copps does this well. Still, it's a good article.">                              

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