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2011-05-04 Great White North

Canada's Liberal leader loses seat, steps down

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Posted by Fred 2011-05-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Michael Ignatieff spent the majority of his productive life living outside of Canada and referring to himself as "British" or "American" to suit his narrative at the time. At a time of post-election weakness of the Liberal Party of Canada he suddenly appeared back in Canada and had himself appointed, not elected, Leader of the Liberal Party.

His next big step was to force an election that his Party couldn't possibly win, followed by losing said election in the most spectacular "FAIL" in half a century of Canadian politics.

Post election defeat speech stated that he would remain on as leader of the Liberal Party until such time as the Party asked him to leave . . . . which must have been immediately following that speech because first thing next morning he was busy announcing his resignation.

Good riddance. He'll be back teaching at Harvard before the ink has dried on the U-Haul trailer contract

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2011-05-04 02:19|| 2011-05-04 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 What is about these Harvard types? Now, if Canada's movement will spread south.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-04 08:39|| 2011-05-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, what was I thinking? The conservatives had the biggest U.S. Congressional landslide in history in 2010. Well, hopefully it will continue.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-04 08:41|| 2011-05-04 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 What is about these Harvard types?

Too much inbreeding. They confused the process that once made the name with the name itself, allowing the process to rot from lack of new genetic material.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-04 08:47|| 2011-05-04 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 "The Liberal decline was in large part due to the ~~rise of the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), which tripled its representation in the Canadian parliament to become the official opposition.~~ fact that Canada still has clean, honest elections in which voters need to show positive ID before they cast their ballots, not to mention that George Soros hasn't gotten interested in purchasing Canada's government yet."

There. Fixed it for ya.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2011-05-04 08:54|| 2011-05-04 08:54|| Front Page Top

#6 The 63-year-old former Harvard academic and human rights

At this juncture, we'd be better off banning top 10 schools from most gov't depts - outside of janitor, etc., & lobbyists.

They're mucking everything up.

Posted by anonymous2u 2011-05-04 10:23|| 2011-05-04 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "Steps down"?

More like "triggered the explosive bolts on his ejection seat"

Posted by mojo 2011-05-04 10:51|| 2011-05-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Aboot time.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-04 11:09|| 2011-05-04 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 So, this is when losing your seat and having your ass handed to you are the same thing?

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-05-04 14:53|| 2011-05-04 14:53|| Front Page Top

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