Curious about who are the 11 Gerard Kennedy delegates in Quebec? I was. As expected, the majority of delegates are in English speaking ridings:
Westmount: 1
Pierrefonds-Dollar (Montreal West Island): 4.
However, something happened in the Chicoutimi-Lac-Saint-Jean region. Gerard Kennedy picked up a delegate in each of Chicoutimi-Le-Fjord, Roberval-Lac-Saint-Jean and Saint-Jean. Most surprising, Gerard Kennedy picked up 3 out of 3 delegates at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi! UQAC has a Liberal club!? (For you detectives out there, part of the answer can be found in the comment section of an august Michel Auger column; the comments, oddly, start from the bottom.) UQAC isn't even on the list!
Anyway, you all know about the dismal performance of Gerard Kennedy in Quebec. I just wanted to point out he did terribly in all of French speaking Canada, including Northern and Eastern Ontario and Northern and Eastern New Brunswick.
The only French speaking Liberals I know who are supporting Gerard Kennedy are his former Ontario colleagues Madelaine Meilleure and Jean-Marc Lalonde. So how did Gerard Kennedy do in Ottawa-Vanier and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell ? Four in total (out of 27)!
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Update: 2006-11-08 22:30
The Saint-Jean riding is in Montérie area, East of Montreal, not in the Lac-Saint-Jean area.
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Blogs in English in favour of Gerard Kennedy:
- All Politics Is Local
- Apply Liberally
- Battle of the Grits (Hangin)
- BC Youth 4 Kennedy
- Chronicles of Gorthos
- Dan Does Edmonton
- Dennis Rice dot sea, eh?
- Gerard Kennedy for Prime Minister
- GK Roadtrip to YLAC
- Grit Stew
- Harper's Deceptions
- Jenuth
- John Manley for PM
- Lib YYC
- Liberal Life and Times
- Liberal Lite
- Liberal Outsider
- Local Grit
- mushroom
- Nicole Martel
- Northern Liberal
- Northern Ontario Youth for Kennedy
- Political Geek
- Political Nobody
- The Calgary Grit
- The Dan Report
- The Liberal Factor
- The Scott Ross
- UW Habs
- Views from the Left
- when east meets west
- Wonk Blog
- Younger Liberals
None!
9 comments:
Haha. Yep, you sure did your homework on this one.
... perhaps you should be looking "a little closer to home" for some very obvious Acadian supporters of Gerard Kennedy.
I go back to what Cerberus said, with the Quebec DEM results not showing the state of GK's campaign in Quebec, but the state of LPC(Q).
What's your excuse in the French parts of Ontario and New Brunswick?
Was Gerard Kennedy's wife elected as a delegate? Nope.
You are forgetting other prominent Francophones such as former NB Premier Ray Frenette, Pierrefonds-Dollard MP Bernard Patry and Young Liberal of Canada VP Marianne Tremblay.
Hey, we're a hockey nation so how about Ken Dryden!
... only kidding of course.
Canada is a great country - except for its politics!
Blogger.com was down for the last 5 hours! So sorry for the delay in approving the comments.
Libberal Pebbles, there are millions of French language blogs on the Internet, none are in favour of Gerard Kennedy.
Nbpolitico, thanks, I did'nt know about Ray Frenette and Marianne Tremblay. And when I say didn't know, I mean I had to Google them because I'd never heard of them! ;-)
You've never heard of Ray Frenette - MLA from 1974-1998 and former Premier of New Brunswick?
Imagine Ignatieff was out of the country and you couldn't vote for him:
Anyone-But-Iggy Web Poll
What would you do?
Nope. During Frenette's couple of months as Premier in 1998, I was in Ontario paying off my student loan. But thanks for the NB political history lesson.
Given Frenette's position as Kennedy's campaign chair and former Premier, don't you think it is odd he wasn't able to rally more (any?) Acadian support for Kennedy?
More to the point, why hasn't Kennedy spoken to any of the Acadian media? Not a single interview, nada, nothing.
I edited the following anonymous comment to remove e-mail adresses of the people listed.
Anonymous said...
Here is a list of Acadians supporting Ignatieff:
1. N.B. MLA Donald Arsenault
2. N.B. MLA Roy Boudreau
3. NB MLA Victor Boudreau
4. Lib MP Jean-Claude D'Amours
5. Former N.B. MLA Paul Duffie
6. Lib Sen. Rose-Marie Losier-Cool
7. N.B. MLA Denis Landry
8. N.B. MLA Abel Leblanc
9. Former N.B. MLA Marcelle Mersereau
10. N.B. MLA Carmel Robichaud
11. Lib MP Robert Thibault
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