Back to the beginning.

What's the surest sign of desperation. Political advertising when no election (or threat of an election has been called)
Take one clip of Liberal Leader Dion, repeat it four or five times, each with a new spin and you have the makings of one of the poorest commercials, that alone wouldn't permit me to vote for the party.

That party of course was the Conservative Party. The clip of Dion was his saying "We have to return to power". Does anyone think that any of the party's leaders don't want to get into power? That's why there are in the leadership position, no?

They quote the spins as the sponsorship scandal, the refusal to get rid of the GST (something that no government would want to do anyway) and a bunch of other things, none of which Dion was responsible for.

Now, of course, Dion isn't saying "we have to return to power" to the Conservatives Sponsorship scandal cookie, that's their way of getting you to think that a party under someone else's leadership will repeat.
Which, to me, means the Conservative government, and their spin doctors don't think too much of the general public's intelligence.

I really wish we had a political penal system in place.
If a party does this or this or this, while in power, they can't rule again for, say, a decade.

Or, if a MP has to resign for doing something illegal, they have to return all their salary from their past terms, something just to inspire them to stay honest.

I guess simply being Canadian isn't enough anymore.