Stanstead Journal Calls Hogg in Compton-Stanstead

While the Journal calls for Cardin in Sherbrooke, the following editorial was written for Compton-Stanstead:

"William Hogg is our choice. He is a formidable, intelligent man, who, while backing Stéphane Dion didn't hesitate to be the co-author of the Liberal Party proposal on the recognition of Quebec as a nation, an idea that Mr. Dion cannot stomach politically and emotionally. Mr. Dion has won last week's test at the French debate, not that Francophone voters will vote for him, but that they could accept him as a palatable Prime Minister. Something that Mr. Duceppe is accepting by asking his voters to vote "strategically" to beat Harper's Presidential Party. If, and the next seven days may prove us right, Canadians decide to give the boot to Harper, they will not flock to the NDP, but the Liberals. While Mr. Dion would hate to run a coalition government, reality may force him to do so with the NDP. Then, Mr. Dion would almost be forced to bring Mr. Hogg into cabinet as one of the few, if not the only, Liberals to be elected outside the Montreal-Gatineau corridor, Mr. Paradis' association with the Chrétien era making this impossible.

By electing Mr. Hogg, the voters of Compton-Stanstead get the chance of having a Minister; our first in over seventy years."