So long Stephane, take two

Surely only Mr. Dion could badly lose an election, announce his impending departure and then spend the interim stumbling towards an even more excruciating demise. Has there possibly been a more painful figure in our political history?

Here is what I wrote in the hours after this fall’s election. The last two months have certainly not flattered Mr. Dion, but the central questions of the Dion era probably remain the same.