I admire Stephane Dion, the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition.
Dr. Dion is an accomplished political scientist and economist, whose bona fides as a professor and senior fellow of the Brookings Institute speaks for itself.
He is a courageous Canadian federalist, who was instrumental as Chretien's Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in the passage of the Clarity Act, which helped to make Quebec secession much more difficult.
He is a vocal environmentalist, who made sustainable development the keystone of his leadership campaign, and was an important figure in passage of the Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change in Canada, an important piece of international law.
He is a voice for Canadian independence in international relations, and was part of the Chretien cabinet when that government decided to stay out of the American invasion of Iraq.
But....
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