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Now wait one gol darn minute here.

Didn’t the Liberals enable the Conservative Government’s immigration amendments to pass?

And now Iggy is being sent on a tour of Canada to try and woo back their supposed base by asking for new ideas?

New ideas for what? How to abstain from voting?

"We don’t like what the Conservatives have done on immigration but we want to come with a good plan to propose to Canadians and Michael and Maurizio have decided they will come with recommendations for the party."

The Star points out that the real problem was that somebody didn’t want an election:

…Liberals voiced their outrage but didn’t defeat the immigration change because it would have prompted an unwanted election in July. But their tacit agreement is seen as a further weakening – if not a betrayal – of the Liberal connection to immigrant communities…

And of course, Canadians apparently don’t want an election in the summer - or the fall, or the winter, or the spring…

Rick Mercer’s brilliant song still rings true:

"We’re not afraid to face the electorate. We’re just afraid to face them in the context of an election!"

Dion feels all this cross country touring will help the Liberals really learn how to be an effective opposition:

"Last year we were full of goodwill but we were still a party learning to be an opposition, while the NDP (had been doing) that for decades," he said.

So this is really a sort of an opposition summer school.

Good plan. Looks like they’ll be there for a long, long time.