A Leader with a Vision
I listened to Stephane Dion being interviewed on the radio this morning. He was on a telephone and fairly hard to understand, but listening carefully I heard a sincere man talking, expressing a vision for our country.
No-one knows where, or when, a leader with a vision will arrive on the public stage. It is not what the leader looks like or sounds like, nor where he hails from. It is the vision – what he says – that matters.
Intelligent Canadians know that our country is rudderless since Mulroney sold us down the river to earn himself a place in the international oligarchy. Dion's vision, which he calls the Green Shift, is a first step for Canadians to take forward into the problems that will confront our world in the 21st century. The alternative is the continued watering – and dumbing – down of our country, the spectre of leaders who try to appear to be at the head of the crowd or who encourage the basest, lowest common fears and play on them.
By Joseph Graham
Posted at 21:16 on June 24, 2008 by joseph