The War Room by Warren Kinsella

Author:Warren Kinsella
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781550029482
Publisher: Dundurn

NOW, WHEN MY DAD WAS GETTING SICKER, and when I was shuttling back and forth between Kingston and Toronto, I wasn’t paying much attention to the 2004 federal election. It just wasn’t all that important.

But you do a lot of waiting when a loved one gets sick — in hallways, at home, and at hospital bedsides. During those times, I wondered what the Liberal Party’s leadership could have done differently in the 2004 federal election campaign, given that, in the view of most everyone, the campaign had been managed very poorly. Given that it blew a near-certain majority and ended up with a slim minority government. Given that it paved the way, in just a few months time, for a healthy Conservative minority government.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should confess that I am no fan of Paul Martin, or the senior people he had around him. I disliked them, and they disliked me.

It had gone on for years, but after a while, you get tired of fighting all the time; sometimes, you forget why you were fighting in the first place. So, on the cold Toronto night in December 2003 that Paul Martin took the Liberal leadership, I put on one of his buttons, walked up to his campaign manager, David Herle, and offered my hand. As a few others looked on, Herle mumbled something, turned around, and walked away. He didn’t shake my hand. A little bit before that, in October 2003, I had made a similar attempt to make peace and sent an email to another top Martin aide, Brian Guest (a guy who is now a senior — and controversial — advisor to Stéphane Dion). Here’s what it said:

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