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Blogging party leaders
Summary:E-governance at its partisan best
This is truly incredible.
I know lots of people in lots of different fields are using blogs to get their points across these days, but never in my life did I expect a major national party leader to blog about his tie at a summit.
Well, Canadian Liberal Party Leader and former Environment Minister Stephane Dion (who has a dog named Kyoto) has been doing just that -- blogging from Bali.
Stephane Dion's Bali Blog, as it is called, is if nothing else an ingenious piece of electoral campaign publicity. With a big "Donate Now" button on the right-hand margin, there is no second guessing what's really going on here. But it is fascinating to read the way Dion writes about himself and other delegates -- meetings with such messiahs as Al gore, etc... -- and their contributions to the UN climate change conference that's got even the most politically apathetic voters taking interest. I suspect an especially high proportion of Canadians fall into that category, having been shocked in recent weeks to find out that their country, oh so green, is in fact a major climate change villain.
Trust those Liberals to be enterprising, if little else, eh?
I know lots of people in lots of different fields are using blogs to get their points across these days, but never in my life did I expect a major national party leader to blog about his tie at a summit.
Well, Canadian Liberal Party Leader and former Environment Minister Stephane Dion (who has a dog named Kyoto) has been doing just that -- blogging from Bali.
Stephane Dion's Bali Blog, as it is called, is if nothing else an ingenious piece of electoral campaign publicity. With a big "Donate Now" button on the right-hand margin, there is no second guessing what's really going on here. But it is fascinating to read the way Dion writes about himself and other delegates -- meetings with such messiahs as Al gore, etc... -- and their contributions to the UN climate change conference that's got even the most politically apathetic voters taking interest. I suspect an especially high proportion of Canadians fall into that category, having been shocked in recent weeks to find out that their country, oh so green, is in fact a major climate change villain.
Trust those Liberals to be enterprising, if little else, eh?
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