For those wondering what kind of listing political hack on the way to oblivion would decalre major consitutional change in the middle of an election:

Pierre Elliot Trudeau at a Liberal ralley at Maple Leaf Gardens in the 1979 election unveiled his unilateral patriation position. He had not previously declared that he would even consider such a course of action previously. Liberal strategist John Duffy

There's an Edmonton-Strathcona all candidates' debate tonight at the Student's Union Building's Meyer Horowitz Theatere at 5:30.

I intend to be there. I hope Mr. Jaffer does too. Or at least that one of his aides will pretend to be him.

An open letter to Scott Feschuk:

As a former 'extremely young liberal' (Ages 6-8) I too inflicting the sting of political geekery upon my parents. I'll answer your son's questions for you:

"How did Paul Martin get to be leader?"

Tenure

"Why do they call the Conservatives the Tories?"

Because daddy's former employer is lazy and can't be bothered with letting you know the distinction between 2 parties let alone sixteen.

"Where do they get these poll numbers?"

They put very underpaid people called surveyers in a hot loud smelly little room and get them to phone 10 people. 9 people yell at them and the tenth hasn't got anything better to do so she or he tells the nice surveyer which party they hate least. They then tell the surveyer why. Is it their stance on money, or saftey, or maybe they like the same kind of muffin as the leader of the party. Then the surveyer puts the information into a computer and then its John's turn to tell you why the numbers don't matter.

"How come the Liberals were ahead and now they are not?"

Do you know how sometimes you work very hard for a while to build a fort out of blocks or something like that? And then after a while you get board and even though there was a lot of effort put into the fort, you just decided you'd change it. So you kick it down and run around laughing? That's why your daddy was limping and saying growly words yesterday.

"Will Paul Martin still be leader if they lose the election?"

No. Because then even if more people would see Paul Martin be the leader than Stephen Harper more people would have wanted Steven Harper to be leader more than anyone else than wanted Paul Martin to be leader than anyone else. Have trouble understanding this? Well Both Paul and Stephen's strategists think that most people would and so insted of explain how government works they've just decided that whoever gets the most seats, even if its less than half, can be leader and oh what a glorious 4 and a half months it will be.
"Only I have a comprehensive solution to the challenges inherent in the political and economic rise of China and India?"

Yeah, I don't believe that either.