Stéphane Dion is not a leader

From the Inkless emailbox. I’ve received about a half-dozen of these releases in recent weeks. It is always the same: Jack Layton will “announce” a major public-transit or urban-infrastructure “plan” in one city or other. I’m actually not sure this is a bad idea. Briefly, two years ago, Layton was talking as though his plan was to supplant Liberals and Conservatives and actually govern this country. The question then arises: how would he govern it? Releases like this would be less jarring if there had been more of them, earlier. Anyway, over to the Prime Minister:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 22, 2008

NDP TO ANNOUNCE MAJOR INVESTMENT PLAN FOR LONDON TRANSIT