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RachelSklar
02/02/09

In reply to Is Michael Ignatieff Canada's Barack Obama?
The lede on this story kills me. He parachutes back into Canada after decades abroad - and then complains how boring it is. Sheesh. I myself way preferred Bob Rae - Rhodes Scholar, lifetime public servant, total mensch. I feel like he got a way worse rap for being Premier of Ontario than he ever deserved - frankly, "Rae Days" look sort of brilliant right now. I'm biased because I know and like Bob but his record of public service is amazing, and he just would have been terrific. I'm not entirely sure about Iggy - and I don't quite think the Obama comparison quite holds (though Obamamania does recall Trudeaumania somewhat). This is probably a bit too esoteric for Gawker, but that's okay. I do like the "Canadawesome" tag tho.
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Mackintosh-Toffee
02/02/09

@RachelSklar: Total agreement about Bob Rae here. His speech at the 2006 convention was the best. But people are pretty unforgiving regarding perceived Socialists and $$ probs. This was his undoing, i'd say.
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lobstr
02/01/09

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just bought the last remaining domain for him.. (.info) .. go iggy! :D
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sassmenagerie
02/01/09

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Ignatieff's nowhere near becoming PM; he seems afraid to take the necessary steps. He had the opportunity to bring down the Conservative Government after its frankly insulting budget. He passed it up (after spending an exasperating day pretending to deliberate) to "put the Conservatives on probation," which means, "allow them to do exactly what they wanted and show the Liberals to be too weak to mount any serious opposition." At least Samantha Power was ballsy enough to call Clinton a "fucking monster."
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Mackintosh-Toffee
02/01/09

@Ragnarockk: So much agreement.

@sassmenagerie: Or if he does become PM, it will be by default due to extreme Harper hatred / massive Conservative fucking up.

Libs from NL are going to vote against the budget on principle because it's actually fucking their province over. Ignatieff has no such principle. He wants to be the winner and that is what he cares about. It can't be said enough, he is waaaay too right leaning.

And check out his Twitter. Lame!
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musicmope
02/01/09

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We're praisingMichael Ignatieff today? You've got to be kidding, eh?

[delong.typepad.com]
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Alwaystheangel
02/01/09

@DeadliestSin: IT'S GOTTA BE RONA!!!!!!
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DeadliestSin
02/02/09

@Alwaystheangel: BAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Yup. The only good looking one the team.
Now if Belinda was still dabbling in things on the hill, she's give Ms.Ambrose a run for the money!
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Xanaxian
02/01/09

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Most people I know like Ignatieff about as little as they like Harper. We city-dwellers skew left, naturally, and Iggy seems way too conservative for a leader of the Liberal party. I and most people I know are rather warming to the amusingly condescending Jack Layton, leader of the lefter-than-Liberal NDP -- Canada's third party -- who deserves a Gawker feature way more than Ignatieff does.
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Helennellieforsythe
02/01/09

@Xanaxian: My dad has a man-crush on Layton. He shook his hand once and told people about it for like a year.
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DeadliestSin
02/02/09

@Helennellieforsythe: I watched a coworker powder his shiney head one day before he did an in-studio interview at my workplace... and it was the buzz for all of 2 hours.
He's an odd duck.
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DeltaGuy
02/01/09

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"Now he's the leader of the minority Liberal Party but he's thisclose of leading that party to majority victory in the upcoming months and becoming the country's PM."

Hahahahahahaha! Someone's actually trying to make a prediction about the future of Canadian politics, this made my day. Our political system up north is so volatile at the moment, that frankly, I could state that the Bloc Québécois could be leading the country to a majority government in the next election.

The Liberals still trail the Conservatives by eight points in the latest polls. They're virtually flat against their vote share in the last election, while the Conservatives have in fact gained a few points.

[www.ctv.ca]
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Trixie from Toronto
02/01/09

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OK, I just read the piece and I guess I am missing the part where the writer compared him to Barack Obama. Help?
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mmstk101
02/01/09

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In that picture, he kind of looks like he's trying out for the now-defunct Canadian Idol
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Xylo
02/01/09

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For his first foreign visit, Barack Obama has wisely chosen Canada, February 19th. (He apparently already has a big pre-visit team in Ottawa "arranging things".) Canada is happy to be the non-threatening choice , taking the heat off every other nation in the world who would have been the brunt of jealousy had he chosen them to host himself, creating a mountain of resentment that might overshadow and even threaten future G7, G8, G20, etc get-togethers where the economic health of the world is at stake.
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Iceland Spar
02/01/09

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Canada - always trying to steal our good ideas!
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Aaron Altman
02/01/09

@Iceland Spar: Oh yeah, like Reykjavik's had any good ones lately. :-P
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Iceland Spar
02/01/09

@Aaron Altman: Ok, so that whole "turn the national treasury into a hedge fund" idea didn't work out. But I like the back-up plan - U.K., if you want any hope of ever seeing all your checking account and pension money again, BAIL US OUT! (We will bring your government down Gordon Brown!)
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Mackintosh-Toffee
02/01/09

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Nice post, Mr. Stein. However as a Canadian will point out the Iggy is probably a bit right of Obama. He was the public intellectual who supported W's war in Iraq and has indicated he at one point held pro-torture views. Personally i'd prefer someone a lot more left than Iggy.

Though I do love that we have someone book smart at the table, it's very exciting. That said, it is very unlikely Ignatieff will take a majority in the next election -- he will probably win a minority. He may get to majority status the next election though. We Canadians love our Liberal governments on the whole

Oh, and leave Toronto alone! It's a Canadian city and nothing like NYC.
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DeadliestSin
02/01/09

@Mackintosh-Toffee: "We Canadians love our Liberal governments on the whole"

Ahem.Correction.
We Canadians IN EASTERN CANADA love our Liberal governments on the whole.
Out west it's a different story.
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Mackintosh-Toffee
02/01/09

@DeadliestSin: Yes, it's true, now.

Being from the West originally as i am, i'd have to say the Liberals still held strong before the Sponsorship Scandal where i'm from. I don't want to point fingers at any region of Canada the way our current government loves to do so heartily. However I will say that not everyone in the West feels the need to be neo-Con. Only a certain political party currently in power is behind this West as separate movement. Ahem.

And let me reiterate, i am no Liberal -- being far too liberal for the likes of them. Heheh.
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sparklyharempants
02/01/09

@DeadliestSin: Thanks for this! It's painful to live in the middle of the dumbasses who vote conservative, though. When will they learn?
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DeadliestSin
02/01/09

@sparklylegwarmers: Personally, I dislike all our political parties... as a young voter, none of them inspired me during the election, but I voted anyways for the candidate that I thought would cause the least damage to my constituency. Plus, she's hotish... for a politician.
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TheRtHonPM
02/01/09

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Unlike Obama, Igantieff was in favor of the Iraq war. He wrote a prominent NYT Magazine article in favor of invasion in January 2003.

He then sorta, halfway apologized for it in another NYT Magazine article in 2007, where he basically argued that as an academic, he has no responsibility and people shouldn't have taken him seriously.
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pufflehuff
02/01/09

@TheRtHonPM: Never trust a writer.

"Fiction is peculiarly well placed to expose untruth, since novelists trade in fabrication and know a fellow liar when they see one."

[www.guardian.co.uk]
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Aaron Altman
02/01/09

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Ignatieff needs to do something about Canadians calling themselves "Americans" when they're abroad. You know, to get out of diplomatics rows and such. It's unseemly!
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Lysergic Asset
02/01/09

@Aaron Altman:

I doubt that's a problem now that our leader is Sunshine Superman.

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Aaron Altman
02/01/09

@Lysergic Asset: Ha ha, speaking of which:

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Xylo
02/01/09

@Aaron Altman: Haha. Yeah, what a difference an election makes. Canadians have now taken to wearing American patches on their backpacks when abroad. Such a friendly conversation-starter!
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TRexstasy
02/01/09

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Anyone whose biography inspires the use of the word "vertiginous" has my support. Ditto "pavilions".

No one speaks of pavilions anymore. And this saddens me.
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No Day Like Friday
02/01/09

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So is Toronto Canada's New York?

Discuss.
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Joshua David Stein
02/01/09

@No Day Like Friday: Nope, Toronto is Canada's Cambridge!
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
02/01/09

@No Day Like Friday: Is Toronto the New York of Canada? Is New York the Chicago of the East? All three can stand alone on their individual merits, thank you very much.
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Xylo
02/01/09

@No Day Like Friday: Is Toronto Canada's New York? Right now (noon, post Sunday morning run) the downtown core is dead. Empty. As in, no one there but a few tourists. So, no.
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mmstk101
02/01/09

@Xylo: It is pleasantly warm, though, so that has to count for something . . . .?

@No Day Like Friday: Toronto is definitely no New York.
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Trixie from Toronto
02/01/09

@No Day Like Friday: Yes, although people in Calgary and Montreal will bitterly dispute that because it's part of the national psyche to loathe Toronto. The West in particular has an irrational and almost insane hatred of Toronto. So yes, in that way, totally Canada's New York!
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Understater
02/01/09

@No Day Like Friday:
Toronto is like New York's wiser by more loserish cousin.
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Helennellieforsythe
02/01/09

@Trixie from Toronto:

As someone in Vancouver, I just have to say, yes we do. Fuck Toronto. There's even a documentary about it!

[www.imdb.com]
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DeadliestSin
02/02/09

@Helennellieforsythe: As someone stuck in one of the landlocked provinces in between, huzzah!
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