With the launch of the Liberal Party's Victory Fund, the Liberals hope to re-energize their fundraising ahead of the next election.

In that election, the Liberals will be running 307 candidates, taking a pass on the riding of Central Nova.  Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion and Green Party leader Elizabeth May entered into a pact.  The Liberals would not run a candidate in Central Nova (where May is running) and in return, the Green Party would not run a candidate in Saint-Laurent--Cartierville (where Dion is running).

So why would the Victory Fund, which aims at raising funds to defeat the Conservatives in the next election, explicitly raise funds for the Liberals in Central Nova?

For months now, the Liberal have been saying that they are ready to fight an election.  Lack of funds?  Not a problem, they said.  The party could spend up to the limit.  Just say go!

Well, apparently it is a problem, after all.

Elizabeth Thompson has written a piece on her blog that puts the CAIRS database question into perspective.

Despite the moaning from the opposition, shutting down the CAIRS database is not about secrecy.  CAIR was never about openness.  It was always about making it easier for the government to limit access to information.

Is this another reason why Stephane Dion is not eager to fight an election?

Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion is about to make a decision that is going to infuriate Liberals everywhere.

In Canada, the age of consent is set to rise from 14 to 16.  This is good news, but not all predators have sex with their victims.

I've installed a new gadget for my BlackBerry.  It's called Viigo.

Until now, the debate on the significance over the apparent decision not to follow its own internal rules governing investigations and search warrants with regards to the Conservative Party In-and-Out issue has been limited to the blogosphere.  That changed yesterday when Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre raised the issue in the House of Commons.

I just discovered that I was scooped by just over a week on the question of whether the investigators who pursued a search warrant targeting Conservative Party headquarters had followed the rules in their own manual.

Glen McGregor of the Canwest News Service mentioned it briefly in a story printed on April 15.

Maybe there is a subtlety to the economic principles involved that I'm not getting.  But according to Stephane Dion, if I force a Canadian farmer to pay more in taxes, he'll be selling more produce than a foreign farmer who pays none of those taxes.