Enough blogging on Conservatives. Let's talk about the Liberals.

Before I get to the Liberal race to replace Paul Martin Junior, two things: Martin and Dingwall. Paul Martin remains Liberal Party Leader and Bill Graham is the interim leader. There is only one recent example on a two-headed party leadership--in Germany. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder resigned his leadership of the Social Democratic Party in favour of Franz Muntefering who became leader. The difference is that Paul Martin is keeping his title and position but not doing any work. I wonder if the Liberal Party pays Paul Martin a salary for keeping the chair warm? Onto David Dingwall who testified in parliamentary committee and on national television that he resigned his post of president of the Royal Canadian Mint. To paraphrase blogger Colby Cosh, why would the Government of Canada go into arbitration to decide whether David Dingwall quit his job when he, the minister responsible for the Mint and the prime minister all said Dingwall himself had quit? To arbitration they went, now Canadian taxpayers had to foot Dingwall's severance.