POWERS: After eight long and tough months, a very turbulent period of Canadian politics has come to an end with the arrival of the Parliamentary summer recess. From November's prorogation until the last confidence vote on June 19 we have seen it all. But what remains a constant mystery to me is, despite the bombast and self-adulation of Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party of Canada, they're at least so far unable to capitalize on vulnerabilities of an incumbent government in a vicious global economic recession.
POWERS: After eight long and tough months, a very turbulent period of Canadian politics has come to an end with the arrival of the Parliamentary summer recess. From November's prorogation until the last confidence vote on June 19 we have seen it all. But what remains a constant mystery to me is, despite the bombast and self-adulation of Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party of Canada, they're at least so far unable to capitalize on vulnerabilities of an incumbent government in a vicious global economic recession.