Liberal party leader bashes the liberals, still gets to lead.
I have to wonder if Michael Ignatieff isn’t in fact a conservative come back to put the final nail in the liberal party’s coffin. In a speech he gave in 2005 at an Irish university, wherein he escentially blamed Canada and its then ruling liberals for what he called a stripping down of their millitary, he criticised 3 liberal prime ministers, including 2 who were in power while he was hiding outside of Canada–Jean Cratien and Paul Martin, for their cutbacks to the millitary and their insistance that they maintain a peacekeeping role.
Ignatieff took it a step farther, though, saying Canada as a whole was perfectly fine with that supposed myth. He added that the ruling liberal party usually preferred to hide behind the peacekeeping label while calling out the US for not doing so–the US was one of the first into both Iraq and Afghanistan, Canada went in to clean it up. Ignatieff went on to say national healthcare, multiculturalism and bilingualism were equally as much a myth as the whole peacekeeper idea, blaming all of that on some believed liberal agenda.
Yet, even with that having been said, Ignatieff still came back to Canada in 2008. Still joined up with the liberal party. Still received the nod for party leadership after their previous leader was rather soundly stepped on by prime minister Stephen Harper. And still wants to lead that liberal party back to power. Or does he? His address in 2005 would tell me no. The fact that Ignatieff still hasn’t come up with any kind of a liberal policy platform or even a rough outline of one also tells me no. I would then be inclined to believe the answer is no. So, the question becomes, exactly what is Michael Ignatieff up to? And what’s Stephen Harper’s cut?
