Because big events often result from simple actions.
...Of all the sweaty palmed shakedowns, the not-so-secret pacts and the unseemly convention floor shoving matches, the most pivotal turned out to be a whimsical decision late Friday by a half dozen or so of Gerard Kennedy's ex-officio delegates to loan their support to last-place contender Martha Hall Findlay on the first ballot.
They felt confident Kennedy could spare a few votes and hoped they might be able to boost the lone female contender ahead of seventh-place Joe Volpe.
But those few votes made all the difference. Kennedy wound up slipping into fourth, just two votes behind Dion. The psychological impact of those paltry two votes on the 5,000 delegates turned out to be huge.
If three of Kennedy's ex-officio delegates stick with Gerard Kennedy then Dion does jump into third, probably does not win and Bob Rae would most likely have become Liberal leader. Three individuals dramatically changed the course of Canadian history.
(h/t Joan Tintor)
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Three individuals dramatically changed the course of Canadian history.
Historic and potentially career-changing to the Liberal partisan weiner dogs who backed one guy or the other, but it hardly matters to the average Canadian which grey-haired, bespectacled, socialist demagogue is going to take a run at their pocketbooks in 2007.
Posted by Anonymous | December 4, 2006 9:58 PM
Posted on December 4, 2006 21:58