this is the kind of sign i've been looking for

The Canadian Press is reporting today on staffing changes in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition. Listing a slew of new faces, Joan Bryan writes that interim Liberal Party Leader Michael “Ignatieff is also poised to name another Torontonian as the party's new national director. Rocco Rossi, CEO of Ontario's Heart and Stroke Foundation, is expected to assume the party's top administrative job, replacing Greg Fergus. Fergus, who was appointed national director by former leader Stephane Dion, tendered his resignation Monday.”

The sad state of fund-raising in the national Liberal Party crippled the last leader and allowed the CPC to run its smear campaign before and during the 2008 election unopposed, because the Liberals did not have the resources to counter it. If the report about Ross is confirmed, Ignatieff will have secured someone with an excellent record in mass-market fund-raising someone who should be a real asset in helping the party dig its way out of a very deep hole.

It’s the kind of appointment which will show, I hope, that Ignatieff has the right stuff to be confirmed, himself, as leader in May.