THE DEBATE

Well, Dion didn't deliver any knockout punches last night, but neither did he flameout. While he did mention the Income Trust debacle, and did so quite well, he failed to nail Harper on the Conservative (old) cap & trade plan that will cost as much overall and be less effective and more economically distorting. He could have referred to Andrew Coyne's article in Maclean's this week ( and neither Coyne nor Maclean's can be accused of being Liberal hacks) defending the "Green Shift" as superior to the Conservatives rather ineffectual "plan", which they now seem to be downplaying.
Elizabeth May came out on top; she was eloquent, intelligent and effective. Perhaps she should be the leader of the opposition.