Stéphane Dion bounded into his first event in Vancouver today.

Susan Bonner

He is pumped by a tightening race and the response he is getting to his attacks on how Stephen Harper is handling the economic crisis.

Publicly, Liberals say it feels like a whole new campaign.

Privately, they acknowledge with the vote less than a week a way time may be tighter than the race, so they will pull out all the stops.

Dion will kick off a multi-day stretch in Ontario with an economic speech before the Board of Trade in Toronto on Wednesday.

To bolster the Liberal economic bona fides, Dion will be introduced by former prime minister and deficit slayer Paul Martin.

Then it's several days of "the team in Ontario" strategy.

—Susan Bonner