The First American Prime Minister That Might Have Been

2011 Federal Election 113 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we told you so!
Michael Ignatieff, May 2nd…

“We have to be big enough, courageous enough, united enough as a party to look at ourselves in the mirror” and learn the lessons of what the Canadian people told them with the election results, he said.
He also said he would be around to study those lessons.
“I will serve as long as the party wants to ask me to serve and not a day longer,” Ignatieff said. “I’m willing to do that work of renewal, reform and growth.”

Michael Ignatieff, May 3rd…

“Sorry – just visiting!”

113 Replies to “The First American Prime Minister That Might Have Been”

  2. Netty asks, “Do I alone see the vanquishing of the BQ as Quebec’s rejection of separatism and a vote to re-join the Canadian dialogue?”.
    I don’t know if you’re alone, but I don’t see it that way. I think Quebec will soon realize that it has elected a bunch of loogans to represent it, and that they have no ability to get anything done for Quebec. This will, I think, lead to a rise in the fortunes of the separatists at the Provincial level. I really can’t see that the minority of separatists has shrunk that much.

  3. BTW the quebec press gallery is asking the real questions. The CBC bimbos are asking him about how it feels to move into stornway etc.

  4. Lucas Kenward, thanks for posting that facebook. Very revealing.
    With such children in opposition Harper is going to literally crush the NDP over the coming years.

  5. ‘I thought Bob Rae put the nail in Iggy’s coffin when interviewed by CBC after the Iggy speech. Although he talk in round about terms, there was no doubt he intended to show Iggy the door asap.’
    What a sad little thing the Liberal party has become when Bob Rae is now considered one of its elder statesmen. OK, so next up, Spawn of Trudeau and after that Rae.
    And when I say ‘sad’, I mean pathetic. It makes me giddy all over.

  6. When I saw the green party being mentioned I thought it was a joke to piss off the conservatives.
    Well it is a joke but………..

  8. I’m a bit dismayed at the extent of the Liberal collapse. Without the government subsidy, deep, deeply in debt, they’ll be many years rebuilding, if ever. Kind of reminds me of what Van der Zalm did to the BC Social Credit party, they never recovered. That means when the Conservatives eventually do fall, the NDP will be in power. Now that’s scary!

  9. One other salient fact about this election is that Harper and his Tories achieved a majority WITHOUT Quebec. In spite of Quebec, even. That’s huge in my opinion. By the next election, there should be about 18 more seats in Tory-friendly areas, mainly in Alberta and BC, making achieving the same goal next time around relatively easier.
    Quebeckers voted for change but backed a losing horse. If they wanted to rejoin the Canadian dialogue, I’m not sure how that happens by voting for faceless candidates vacationing in Vegas. I’m gratified as hell to see the Bloc die, but miffed that, once again, Quebeckers did their damnedest to prevent a Tory majority.

  11. The problem now for the strategists becomes how do you undermine the NDP in QC without pissing off the base. I think Mulrooney will not be asked for input somehow.

  12. I have my suspicions it is a fake Facebook profile as well (upon deep inspection), but it speaks to the challenges that Jack! will have over the next few years.

  13. “Caution: That Facebook profile may be fake.”
    hehe, definitely is, but it’s still amusing.

  15. This should be a tip as to it’s authenticity, from the profile:
    “Waking up as a bartender on one day, and MP on the other, I f***ing love my life! I can finally afford a new kitchen set”
    hmmm, on second thought… 😉

  17. “I’m a bit dismayed at the extent of the Liberal collapse. Without the government subsidy, deep, deeply in debt”
    Does this mean that it’s not a good time to ask for our $40 million back?

  18. Kate
    Thank you to you and your contributors for all the coverage and links during the recent election.
    For those of us who have given up on the MSM it was appreciated.

  19. I’m not counting the Liberals out. The NDP elected 4 McGill students so expect either a demand for students to not show up or the U of Parliament to be demanded (with daycare of course.)
    Gonna be a lot of laughs in the future.
    Jack and Liz shouting each other down in the scrums. Journos falling asleep during the endless rants. That is payback folks.

  20. Yep, and the absent-minded professor also restated during the press conference the lie that he had no choice but to call an election because Harper “was in contempt of Parliament”. Looks like Iggy has a long way to go before he “learns a lesson” — the “contempt of Parliament” baloney is something the opposition has been trying to cook up for the past two years, before there was even a single pretext for doing so (Evidence: lots of past articles in Macleans, etc., etc.).
    I don’t have the slightest respect for the departing Iggynoramus — he lost because he was a liar devoid of ethics and a moral compass, and a Liberal power-monger “in contempt of Democracy”, and Democracy gave him the spanking that he deserved.
    And I had the privilege of personally voting against Iggy and seeing him lose — I live in Iggy’s Toronto riding.
    Yippee!

  21. “I think Quebec will soon realize that it has elected a bunch of loogans to represent it, and that they have no ability to get anything done for Quebec. This will, I think, lead to a rise in the fortunes of the separatists at the Provincial level. I really can’t see that the minority of separatists has shrunk that much.”
    I coukld not have said it better. The NDP made some pretty nmajor promises…none they have in their power to keep. this will most definitely piss off la Belle province…I see referendum in 4-5 years.
    stk

  22. “I think Quebec will soon realize that it has elected a bunch of loogans to represent it, and that they have no ability to get anything done for Quebec. This will, I think, lead to a rise in the fortunes of the separatists at the Provincial level. I really can’t see that the minority of separatists has shrunk that much.”
    I could not have said it better. The NDP made some pretty major promises…none they have in their power to keep. This will most definitely piss off la Belle province…I see referendum in 4-5 years.
    stk

  23. Has Heather Mallick left the country yet? or hurled herself off the 9th floor?

  24. the fall of the lieberal party started with Turdough, and has had a push to put it over the cliff by each subsiquent “leader”. Iggula just finished the job. And if they, lieberals, don’t clean house and start anew, they may just as well burn the place down, because their current group is devoid of any leaders

  25. Igantieff going back to teaching…..I sure hope his subject isn’t Political Science.

  27. When I saw the clip of the 4,000 Hockey Mom’s and Dad’s Booing his sad ass and phony smile I knew in my heart he was a gonner. Now get.

  28. And as opposition leader, we have a man you’d go for a beer and a massage with.

  29. Now that Jack Layton is the Leader of the Official Opposition might his #1 immediate priority be to demand free massage “therapy” as part of MP benefits? Or might this already be part of their sizable benefits plan?!

  30. Basically, Ignatieff is saying: “Darn it, I am a loser, but I am not a sore loser”.

  31. steakman writes: “”I think Quebec will soon realize that it has elected a bunch of loogans to represent it, and that they have no ability to get anything done for Quebec.”
    When Jack shows up for the job, he will find that just over half his caucus is made up of Quebec candidates who were likely vetted poorly, if at all, and may have run on a dare or because they were between engagements at coffee shops. We’ve already met the (recently) ex-Communist Karate Kid and the Hon. (Not) Leaving Las Vegas Brousseau. How many other fascinating stories are out there for research by gnomes in the PMO?
    And this rogues’ gallery will be presided over by the thuggish Mr Mulcair. The press just thinks that Mr Harper has kept his MPs on a short leash; they’ve seen nothing yet.

  32. Not to be cynical or anything, but don’t you think May’s victory is actually good strategically? If the Green party are seen as viable, then maybe next election they take 10% of the vote, instead of 3% or whatever they took this time. And the more we split the left, the better!

  33. Great to see Harper get his majority.
    Cannot believe Ol’ RubnTug Jack is going to be living in another taxpayer funded home! Does this guy EVER pay for housing?

  34. Copy, pasted my comment on BCF earlier today:
    Don’t shed a tear for Darth Harvard, I am certain he will get a job from LPC (Liberal Parachute Club) member Allan Rock of the University of Ottawazistan.
    He’ll probably create a Resident Alien, er Alien in Residence, er Just Visiting Fellowtravellership position for Iggy.
    Barring that, he can become straight man for Rick Mercer’s jokes: “Hey Iggy, how many progressives does it take to screw up a vote mob? Answer, me!”

  36. “loogans”
    haven’t heard that term for years, and yet it perfectly sums up most of the new NDP caucus.
    “Question Period”? More like “Canadian Idol”, if you ask me.

  38. I’m just salivating at the thought of these new Dipper MPs having a mic in front of their mugs.
    Just one question about Israel or foreign affairs and the loons will make a spectacle of themselves. Get ready for Gaffe-a-Mania.
    Unless Jack reigns in his MPs a la Harper, it’s going to be very fun watching the loons speak for Canadians.

  39. iggy’s major problem, as was dijon’s and most of the dippers and greenies is that they mistake education for intelligence when what they really need is common sense and they don’t teach that so they don’t recognize it in the unwashed masses they love to look down their noses at. Put a 21 year old ‘activist’ student into an argument with a 50 year old tradesman who’s busy putting his own kids that age through university and they’ll lose every single time, because they haven’t learned yet that the world doesn’t owe them anything and demanding the ‘government’ pay for their education just means they’ll be in for a horrendous surprise when they graduate and suddenly have to pay the higher taxes their ludicrous demands forced.
    Advanced education is a wonderful thing, but in most cases, especially iggy’s all it does is make you able to discuss for hours things absolutely nobody cares about except the few studying it and your only real job option afterwards is teaching the same thing.
    Don’t take it the wrong way, we need art historians, Polisci and English lit majors…someone has to the make the fries after both of the available jobs in their fields are filled.
    Meanwhile, a plumber makes more than most arts graduates mainly because more people need to take a crap than read it.
    Ever notice how many dippers have math or engineering degrees ? try next to none.

  40. First comment from Abe included this re Harvard:
    “We really need to ban university professors from politics they are so stupid.”
    You wan more Harvard?
    Go to WUWT and find this:
    “Sir John Houghton once famously said:
    Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen.
    Except actually he didn’t say that. His real words were:
    “If we want a good environmental policy in the future we’ll have to have a disaster.”
    Now, in an eerie echo of the learned Sir John, we have the words of Robert Stavins, the head of Harvard’s Environmental Economics program: Continue reading →”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/03/quote-of-the-week-climate-catastrophe-deja-vu-all-over-again/#more-39250
    H/T Lizard May, MP.

  41. Szuszanna’s packing the bags as I write. “Michael, can you hurry up the process? How soon can you bow out? Let’s get out of here ASAP — like yesterday.”

  42. Hi Robert W. Here’s a (rough) translation. Plz forgive errors.
    ******
    The station was contacting the candidates for the different parties in Berthier-Maskinongé to offer them the chance of a radio interview when they got in touch with Mme Brosseau. This was at the beginning of April.
    From the first moments of the conversation it was very evident that this resident of the region of l’Outaouais had, as her first language, English. Her French was a bit limited, and there was a rather impressive accent.
    In response to the question posed by our journalist: “Do you speak French?”, she ventured, with a pronounced accent: ”Yes, a little bit.”
    When we explained that we were contacting her as NDP candidate for Berthier-Maskinongé, there was a noticeable delay before she answered.
    “Oh, oui, yes, yes,” she said.
    Moreover, when we mentioned the point of our phone call (to have a interview with her for our programme), she said she would call us back to discuss it, a promise she didn’t keep.
    The Liberal party candidate, Francine Gaudet, as well as the Bloc candidate, Guy André, both candidates in the same riding, reacted on our programme to this little story surrounding the NDP candidate.
    “This doesn’t hold water. These facts weren’t known by people. I hope that the voting population carefully checks out the candidates before voting on May 2nd,” declared Mme. Gaudet.
    “I imagine that voters wouldn’t cast a ballot for someone who isn’t actually in Outaouais,” put forth Guy AndrĂ©.
    In addition to all this, the Globe and Mail has reported that Ellen Ruth Brosseau is currently on vacation in Las Vegas.
    Comments:
    1: “It’s in Quebec that Mme. Broussea actually won the jackpot.” Dated 03.05.2011
    2: “We deserve better than that in Berthier-MaskinongĂ©, we have a good representative and we’re keeping him, we’re voting for the Bloc’s M. Guy AndrĂ©.” 29.04.2011
    3: “Hello! As the Rhinoceros candidate, I repeat: Federal politics is a serious business. It’s for this reason I would like to offer my support to the NDP candidate.
    “If I should decide not to run in the next federal election, I will certainly consider her to replace me.
    “Good luck miss Brosseau. I wish you a very good trip in Las Vegas.”
    Martin “Acetaria Caesar” Jubinville
    Candidat Rhinocéros
    Berthier-Maskinongé
    28.04.2011

  44. Re The Grope & Flail article:
    Did I miss the 3rd Liberal leadership races? Mr. Ditheres replaced T’Gar (1), Stephie replaced Mr. Dithers (2). Who was “elected via a leadership race & vote” to replace Stephie? I recall Iggy was appointed by the Liberal back room without a race.
    Do newspaper writers & editors know how to use Google & Wikipedia?

  45. It is with some degree of satisfaction I watch this elitist UN globalist slink back into some lower 48 globalist brain trust vacuum to lick the wounds to his gargantuan ego. Treating one of the mob party’s snobby leaders like a ‘whupped dawg’ gives some satisfaction for the decades of corruption,and statist autocrcy they burdened this nation with.
    RIP count Iggula, your klepto party is on death watch as you leave – life is sweet!
    Posted by: Occam at May 3, 2011 11:51 AM
    Thank-you Occam for the definitive statements that epitomize, exactly, my thoughts on the fella from USA who came up here to ‘take over’ for the evil World Gument promoting demons. I don’t care a fig where he goes, I just wish he was taking his pal, Jacko, with him. I’m happy to see my country with a ‘strong, stable, Conservative, majority government’ under the able, fine leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

  48. Bemused
    Yes, Progressives don’t understand that education is a ‘means’ to an ‘end’, not an ‘end’ in its self. This is why they feel so much envy when they see Joe “the Plumber’s” pay stub.
    What has become obvious to everyone except academia is: academics are woefully inadequate to run anything, especially government or business. Why would they? That’s what we should be asking.

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