By-election day

The Liberals lose Outremont; Dion to step down after humiliating loss!
Bloc lose Roberval; vow to not fight election soon!

Well, maybe we won't see either of those headlines in the paper tomorrow, but the way some press members are talking, it seems to be gearing up towards that. Yes, Liberal and Bloc losses in the 2 ridings would be tough, but we won't be seeing knives coming out over the results of a by-election. And I don't even think it will affect how likely these parties will be to head into an election this fall.

Which is an interesting point: the way the media has it, the Ignatieff clan are sabotaging Outremont in order to force Dion down. But everyone and their sister knows that Dion will face at least one election as leader. But the media also seem to think that by losing, the Liberals will delay trying to force an election. So by that logic, IF both of these media rumours are true, then Iggy's folk are going against their own wishes. However, they have repeatedly said that they're not trying to help the Liberals lose, so there goes at least one piece of speculation down, although it doesn't really impact the other rumours.

[For the record, I don't think that any "rival" leadership camp is out to sabotage the Liberal party. Dion may not be doing the absolute best around, but I don't think one by-election loss with a rival party throwing out a star candidate shows a tremendous lack of leadership]