And Then There Were Eight.
Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press
Well, the over-sized pack of painfully polite wolves has shrunk by a factor of one.
Robert evidently saw the francophone writing on the wall and knew his campaign would never survive past the next french debate. That was a smart move.
But one has to wonder exactly what Robert left behind. No doubt, some of the long-shot candidates entered the race as a sounding board for some of their ideas they’d like to see fused into federal party platform.
For Robert, it seems, your ideas are his ideas.
It’s sort of a shame that Robert never had a chance to bring out his populist banjo and rattle off some of the ideas that have been submitted on his site. Some are actually quite good.
Then there’s the bad, the really bad, the really really bad, and the … one about beavers.
Among the ideas are the typical leftist policy planks; increase funding for post-secondary education, create a national housing strategy
But there are some really creative suggestions in here. Two of my favourites involve creating a social economy and preventing foreign acquisition of agricultural land.
Those are two novel ideas that Robert should have jammed down the throat of the party. Alas, he never had the chance.
It would make me rather happy if Robert kept his ideas page and used it as a policy-generator, pushing the good ideas on whatever leadership contender he chooses to get behind in the end.
