POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY REX MURPHY IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Three decades in Canada is only part of what Ignatieff is missing.
Perhaps more important is his lack of any real contact or bond with people.
There is something, not just aristocratic, but almost autistic about Ignatieff.
He just does not reach the emotions because he just does not feel them.
Contrast him with a wonderfully earthy and charming politician like Chretien, and you feel there is nothing there.
Even in the sphere of the intellect, supposedly Ignatieff’s great strength, I find him surprisingly wanting.
Again, compare him to Trudeau whose brilliance shines in every photo and is burned into memory, and there is little there but mannered words and the indulgent remembrance of a well-connected family.
Ignatieff is altogether an unimpressive politician.
If you add his absence and long lack of interest to Canada, he becomes even more unappealing.
And if you add his past defense of torture, mass murder, and imperial brutishness, there is nothing there worth talking about.
This sad situation is made sadder still by the utterly soulless Harper, a robot with no personality and no sense of ethics, giving us nowhere to place a comforting vote of trust.
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"Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion."
- Stephen Harper
Many thanks to the person above for posting this. Of course, we must also rememmber Harper supported America's mass murder in Iraq, and wanted us to join in the slaughter.
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