Liberal Leadership: Weekend Roundup

All 11 leadership candidates met in Toronto over the weekend for the annual meeting of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario). Here's a round up of the weekend:

Is Ken Dryden the sleeper candidate who will surprise everyone? I think so... and so does Shoshana (more to come in a few days on this).

From the CTV:

"Losing stinks," summed up hockey legend and former minister Ken Dryden.

He said Liberals need to adopt a positive attitude in order to save the country from another Harper election victory.

"We have to win. Not maybe win, not like to win. Win."

Former Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy echoed that sentiment: "We cannot let Stephen Harper do to Canada what (former premier) Mike Harris did to Ontario."

Bob Rae, a former NDP premier of Ontario, told about 1,400 party faithful that the Harper government's first "focus group budget" on Tuesday, laden with small tax breaks for various groups, shows "this is not a government that's thinking about the future; it is a government that is only trying to buy an election."

Cherniak on the Leadership panel