Topic: Stephane Dion
Quotes
I will not be a candidate for the leadership of my party at that convention
Dion giving up Liberal Party post Oct 20, 2008
I do not need any lessons from Stephen Harper on fighting for the national unity of my country
Harper: Ecotax endangers economy, unity Sep 11, 2008
Go and look at the plan yourself. Go and look at those tax cuts
Canada's Dion accuses Harper of lying Sep 08, 2008
We want to focus on social justice, as well as the environment. Harper wants to pit one against the other
Canada's Dion accuses Harper of lying Sep 08, 2008
This tax will pack a cost on to every expenditure every family and every business makes
Canada PM Harper dissolves Parliament Sep 07, 2008
Stéphane Maurice Dion, PC, MP (born September 28, 1955) is a Canadian politician who has been the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Laurent–Cartierville in Montreal since 1996. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 2006 to 2008. Dion resigned as Liberal leader after the 2008 election where the party suffered their second worst result ever, making Dion only the second Liberal leader in Canadian history who never became Prime Minister.
Dion is a former academic who served as a cabinet minister under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin and, as such, is a Member of the Privy Council.
Dion was born in Quebec City, Quebec, the second of five children. His mother, Denyse (née Kormann), was a real-estate agent born in Paris, France, and his father, Léon Dion, was a Quebec academic. Dion was raised in a modest home on Liegeois Boulevard in the Sillery district of Quebec City. While growing up, he remembers being taunted for his family's secularism in a society which was then predominantly Catholic.
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