2009 The Hollow Liberal Victory

The black hands struck twelve a new year began, and just as all left the lingering thoughts of 2008 only to think of 2009 and all the possibilities that it brings, Canada's political future already clear is perhaps the most certain.

With Stephen Harper too wounded and too known, the Liberal Party will win the election in 2009 and Michael Ignatieff will become a Prime Minister that will offer stability to our party and to our country. But though he will strengthen the bones, the frame of our party and our nation's politics, as leader and Prime Minister he will suppress the heart, the spirit of all.

Just as there is no challenge to him now to be Liberal leader, so will it be for him to be Prime Minister. And as Liberals are left with no choice, so too will most Canadians; leaving a Liberal leader to become Prime Minister that derived authority and power not from the people but from circumstance.