Aboard Air Inuit at last!

Outside, new stickers say Liberal and Carbonzero (the company from which the Liberals have purchased carbon offset credits to make up for all the emissions from the 30-year-old Boeing 737).

Inside: brand-new leather seats and carpet, Air Inuit ballcaps for all the reporters, and it smells like we're going to have a good meal.

The plane, which has not yet been christened, also has no first-class seating. A curtain divides the leader's area from the rest of us. But when it comes right down to it, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has the same-sized seat and the same amount of leg room.

When Dion arrived, he and his wife Janine came back to the "economy section" to greet all the journalists and tell us to have a good flight.

We depart Hamilton tonight for Saint John, N.B.

—Alison Crawford