Toronto-Centre Liberal MP Bob Rae was at it again this morning warming up the crowd before his boss spoke.

Rae opened his short speech to students at the University of Western Ontario by saying this:

"I was up for most of the night drinking beer, yakking with friends and not quite sure what bed I was going to end up in. Anybody here that can relate to that?"

Rae, of course, was referring to the close to four hours he spent sitting on the grounded Liberal plane in Montreal with Stéphane Dion, his staff and members of the national media.

Liberal staff were at first trying to find a hotel to spend the night in Montreal — but learned it's not easy to book 50 rooms with no notice.

In the end, a second plane come through to bring the group to the planned destination of London.

It's not clear how Rae thinks UWO students spent their evening.

— James Fitz-Morris