Some new and catch up items:

Warren Kinsella's Clear Canadian Campaign Coverage (Sept. 6, 2008)

LOSER: Political polygamist David Emerson, who now wants us all to know he was never a Liberal. What we know, instead, that David Emerson represents the worst of politics: the man who, in his essence, believes in nothing. The reason he isn't running again is simple - he'd get massacred in Vancouver-Kingsway. Don't let the screen door hit you on your way out, Dave.

Critics find David Emerson's foreign-affairs role ironic (July 10 2008, The Georgia Straight)

“I hope [David Emerson] runs again so I can kick his ass,” [former Campaign to De-Elect Kevin Chalmers] said by phone after stepping off a plane from Toronto. “Given the lack of depth in the bench strength there, I can understand why the prime minister would go to him [to replace Maxime Bernier]. On the other hand, it is ironic that when you look at him being in that role—and trying to take Canadian values and democracy and looking at Kosovo or China or what has gone on recently in the world—you wonder, how can this person be an advocate or a voice for democracy under the circumstances?”

David Emerson, 'son-in-law of China' (July 2 2008, The Globe and Mail)

“Analysts think that Emerson's appointment as foreign minister might bring an improvement in relations between Canada and China,” the Global Times added. “He is expected to reduce the ideological differences between Canada and China…. He is the Canadian minister who is most familiar with Chinese issues, and the one who has visited China the most times.”

[Editor: Ideological differences indeed - neither China nor David Emerson believe in real democracy]