Canada’s next Prime Minister

An academic, a “nerd”, a man with a dog named Kyoto, and, if recent history is any indication, this country’s next Prime Minister.* Stéphane Dion was in fifth place going into this weekend’s Liberal leadership hootenanny and even though convention-al wisdom saw the prize going to one of the giants with “star power”, Michael Ignatieff or Bob Rae, the man with little charisma, so-so English, and a geeky reputation (but the most meaningful political experience) emerged the convention victor.

This is how politics is supposed to work. I couldn’t be happier.

*i.e. the newly instated leader of the Liberal Party invariably wins the next election.