Alliance is also shielding the leader from the press because of its excessive negativism. D-Day has come and gone. Seeing his leadership at risk Day committed to producing a document defining his vision of where he is taking the party. The 45 page paper offers little. It is neither a new vision or a pivotal point in sustaining both party and leader from further decline.
Alliance now faces deeper problems.
Shoring up dissent does not resolve caucus frustrations or the public's perception of a party ill-equipped to lead the country. Indeed, if large numbers of the caucus continue to speak out against Day, finding themselves ex-communicated, it will lead to a numbing fracture. The ploy of concealing dissent will have failed leaving a committed group whose sole task will be speak out against Day's leadership at every opportunity. At some point both Day and party have to come to grips with reality. It cannot continue.