Placing our faith in our lord and saviour; a resurrected J.C.

I've now had multiple people send me this much circulated story.


Some of what is written is astute and some of it fails in its assessment.


Where Travers gets it right is his overall analysis of the Liberal Party:

a once dominant party in steep decline and startling disarray.

That might be the best one line summary of the state of the party that I have read yet. And he doesn't miss the mark later in the article, either:

But retreating to the future would be as risky a Liberal solution as abandoning its brand.

Their current agony is rooted in expedient leadership decisions that began with letting Paul Martin escape the necessary crucible of a testing campaign. Forgotten, too, is that parties shooting inwards become wounded prey for outside predators.

But where he misses the mark is where he assigns blame to our current leader. The Liberal Party was in a state of disarray long before Iggy took the reins and it will continue to be in disarray until certain things are addressed.


Talk of Jean Chretien returning to power is a symptom of the larger problems that we face. Rather than being a lack or failure of leadership, we have two other principal causes for what might be our demise. We have come to have a culture of entitlement and we believe, rightly or wrongly, that we are Canada's "natural governing party." 


Until we can get over, around, through or in any other sense abandon these two ideas, we will likely be sitting on the opposition benches. No coalition, no merger and no return of our once great leader will change that.