The Conservative response to a recent Liberal video, in which Michael Ignatieff talks about his Russian father coming to Canada, has been posted on here and here. Obviously, the Tory line that Ignatieff’s immigrant roots count for less because he descends from Russian aristocracy is an example of the crudest partisan spin.
Tag Archives: True Patriot Love
So not all bad then?
Robert L. Fraser is unimpressed with True Patriot Love.
We should all be so criticized
Gilles Duceppe gives Michael Ignatieff a blurb for the soft cover edition of True Patriot Love.
Iggy’s morally contemptible words
His version of what happened to ‘the sick little girls’ amounts to tasteless opportunism
It took Iggy nine years to write 177 pages?
True patriot love? From a man who’s spent most all of his adult life outside Canada?
In search of a unified theory of Ignatieff
Ignatieff is too honest. “Talk about the audacity of hope. The newly crowned leader of the federal Liberal Party seems to be hoping that we can handle the truth in politics, despite the considerable body of evidence that we’d prefer to hear fairy tales from our politicians.”
Can a cosmopolitan be a patriot? Don’t ask Ignatieff
There’s a good book to be written about the Ignatieff family. ‘True Patriot Love’ isn’t it.
‘We should encourage more of these types of people’
Somewhat surprising paragraph from the definitive Zoomer profile of Michael Ignatieff.
Still with the Canadian question
Michael Ignatieff talks to the Star.
Gregg v. Ignatieff
Twenty-seven more minutes of conversation. About nine-and-a-half minutes in they move on from True Patriot Love to talking about Ignatieff’s political career. Haven’t got time to watch it all before QP. Will go ahead and assume there are at least half a dozen attack ads in there somewhere.