Bob Rae: The real reason he won’t run for the Liberal leadership

For years, Bob Rae wanted to be prime minister of Canada.

It was a goal that dominated the last decade of his life, that drove the one-time NDP premier of Ontario to join the Liberal party, that drove him to seek the Liberal leadership in 2006 only to finish in third place, that drove him to seek the leadership again in 2008 only to see the opportunity yanked out from under him due to a party coup by Michael Ignatieff and his caucus supporters.

But Rae persevered and the dream never died.


After Ignatieff led the Liberals to their worst-ever defeat in the 2011 election, Rae became the party’s interim leader — seen by most as another step on his path to becoming full-time leader and, with any luck, eventually prime minister.

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