Is Dion turning things around?

Life can be hard, and often life is the hardest when you try to lead a national political party in Canada. It becomes even more of a Herculean task when such party is in opposition.

Welcome to the life and hardship of Stéphane Dion, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and presiding over one of the worst free falls for the Liberals in modern polling history.

Having been painted as being soft on both terrorism and crime, including by a few other Liberals, Dion could be forgiven if he simply threw in the towel and called on his party to start another leadership race.