TORONTO: Outgoing Liberal leader Stephane Dion was portrayed during the election campaign as “weak” by the country's political satirists, according to a media analysis from Cormex Research.

The study measured 30 newspapers as well as television satire from such programs as CBC's Rick Mercer Report and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. It found that 20% of all political satire portrayed Dion as physically weak. Cam Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen depicted Dion as too weak to lift boxing ...