It's looking more and more likely. Charest is over visiting the lieutenant-governor right now, Ontario goes to the polls in October and federally, Dion's troubles are proving quite tempting for the Harper Tories to drop the writ.
All the elections are promising to be really interesting, with Québec's probably the most so. If the ADQ can run a stellar campaign, there's an outside chance they could form the Official Opposition. A PQ organizer who works for the party just outside the Quebec City area told me yesterday the PQ is "im shambles" in the regions, which is where they need to pick up seats.
Interestingly, the media has begun to turn on Dion, but only in the wake of recent bad polls results -- the result of his weak overall performance and the Tory attack ads (the ones the experts said were poorly done and wouldn't make a difference.)
Dion isn't the first party leader to get off to a bad start and he won't be the last. He could easily recover. But having a Liberal party this unenergized and weak in the polls + sovereignist troops in Québec likely to be totally demoralized after a probable PQ loss provincially may prove to be too good an opportunity not to pull the trigger.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 11:11 AM
