100 Replies to “The First American Prime Minister In Waiting”

  3. Shouldn’t it be ….. unless you make yourself Prime Minister … ?

  4. I can’t imagine why anyone would want a de facto foreigner as Prime Minister. He’s so out of touch with Canada that he thinks that Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver constitute the entire country. He comments show he knows nothing about the last 30 years of Canadian political history. I hope voters hold him to account for a life that demonstrates that he believes that Canada is not worth living in or contributing to unless he are handed the chance at the Prime Ministership.

  6. I can’t believe he referenced Expo ’67 in his speech.
    I was 3 and a half, so anyone younger than me has no memory of it.
    But thats probably the last great thing MI remembers about Canada.

  8. Ignatieff is not interested in Canada.
    He’s interested in a career status. Check out his career decisions.
    Moving from his visiting lectureships, his editorial gigs in the UK – where he spent over 20 years; and his Harvard phase of five years as director of a Centre for Human Rights policy – he then, at the age of 53 moved ‘back’ to Canada – which he had left as a child. Why did he move?
    Because he was asked to become a key figure in the Liberal Party. Ignatieff did not move before this for his own commitment to Canada or for any academic role. You can see that in his books and articles which have nothing to do with Canada and are focused on international issues and the role of the USA.
    He moved for a political career – and there is only one role he would accept – Prime Minister. It’s the role he’s after; he has never shown any interest in or commitment to Canada. His commitment is to himself.

  9. He attended all party functionary meetings with Obama, Soros and Bill, “the bomber” Airs at the Acorn bunker in Chicago. He is more than qualified to run Canada’s sheeples.

  10. Shouldn’t it be ….. unless you make yourself Prime Minister … ? ~ Bill D. Cat
    You’re right Bill D. He’s aspiring to the top job, but so far he hasn’t been elected to anything.

  11. Iggy is more annoying and condescending than Layton and when he talks I actually hear an American lecturing us on how backward and ignorant we are as a country. Then I realized why!
    HE sees Canada through the lens of stereotype of Canada that many Americans have. It would be a joke if it was not being supported by the people in the Liberal Party.
    I see it like a bad movie where the prince goes to America for education and returns to assume the crown, and so does Iggy.

  12. Promise the Canadian sheep free money and they will elect you King. The LPC has finely tuned the process of inverting the taxpayer and shaking them by leveraging this sad reality.
    And then, there is always the UN when you want to globalize the shakedown – on to bigger and better things.
    Yes, a stint as PM looking after a certain financial empire, with a promise of promotion to the “board room” at Turtle Bay if you manage to channel enough dough to the members of the club.

  14. This is just long term strategy…he’s filling in the gap…waiting for Justin to mature.
    Justin will be “the one”!

  15. Count Igula…not my Prime Minister. Now or ever.
    Hey Iggy, I’m holding up my middle finger in your direction. Again.

  16. Go Micheal GO! Defeat Harpo and kick the Conservatives back to minority status where they belong. Looking at the polls coming out of Quebec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada this is entirely possible. Myopic Alberta and Sask. are the only two provinces probably still dumb enough to blindly follow Harpo (and a minister the likes of Gerry Ritz). Harpo is in trouble and dissention is forming in the Conservative ranks.They say rattlesnakes sometimes turn on one another.

  17. I can’t believe he referenced Expo ’67 in his speech………..
    Posted by: Stephen at May 5, 2009 9:28 AM
    I also was three at the time Stephen. It was probably the last time he lived here, so it was the only reference he could make.

  18. ET – Actually MI was born in 1947 so he was 58 when he returned to Canada in 2005 and will be 62 on May 12 this year. As you know, PMSH recently turned 50.

  19. Great post ‘Kate’. Nothing like the image, image, image that MI and the Lieberals are putting up. All and everybody happy, doing all things good for all Canadians. Wonder how far they will push the bullsh*t before they and only them will bring down the existing government. I don’t know, maybe they better do the math on that one. I’m with ‘ET’ on this one about the images but as ‘ET’ wondered, why is ‘Chretian’ pushing for an election in June?.

  20. maggie – right. Sorry. Ignatieff was indeed 58 when he returned to Canada, having spent almost all his life – and his working life – outside of the country. Either in the UK or the USA.
    His focus has always been on international affairs and the USA in its international role. He has shown no interest in, no knowledge of, no commitment to Canada. He came here only to ‘crown’ his personal career. He wants to be PM as a highlight of his personal career. Period.
    Nothing to do with any long ambition to better Canada and Canadians. In all his 58 years before he ‘returned’ to Canada, he has shown no interest in, no indication, no ‘hint’ even, of defining himself as a Canadian. His current ambition is directly solely to himself. Not Canada or Canadians. He’s quite willing to use both Canada and Canadians in this personal agenda.

  21. The Igs and the media will be hyping Hope and Change and all the Obamatists will be swooning.
    It won’t matter he preferred to be American even though these are the same people who constantly spew American hatred.
    Before the presidential election people were saying “Pigs will fly before Obama gets elected. Now we have ‘Swine Flu’ “.

  22. “Because he was asked to become a key figure in the Liberal Party.”
    I wonder who it was that asked him to come back to Canada, what friend he has that saw him as the answer to the Liberal Party’s sagging ratings.
    If it was perennial kingmaker Paul Demerais, I have to ask if maybe he’s out of touch with Canada,too. With all the thousands of Liberals in Canada to choose from, why have the wheels fallen off the Party’s leadership wagon, with Chretien the only credible candidate they’ve had since the ’90’s.
    Paul Martin:disaster, Stephie Dion: Disaster, Ignatieff: saviour? Only in the imagination of desperate Liberals.

  23. Just to be fair – Iggy did tour where his heart was. Heart and body united – beautiful!!!! It was rumoured (CBC is still checking) this triggered the Northern Lights!!!!

  24. merle – yes, that’s an interesting question; why is Chretien pushing for a June election?
    Adler’s analysis yesterday of the Liberals and Ignatieff was excellent. And he pointed out that the split in the Liberal Party remains. Before, it was Chretien-Martin. BUT, it must be emphasized that both of them, no matter their personal and hostile ambitions for power – and for both, their focus was only on power not Canada – BOTH were part of the Desmarais-Power Corp gang in Ottawa-Montreal. Same with Mulroney.
    So, what you have is a corrupt Ottawa-Montreal clique, tied financially and politically to a backroom cabal..manipulating elections using taxpayer money to pay workers, manipulating the electorate by sectioning them off into ‘identity groups’ and then using taxpayer money to fund them in return for votes. Setting up the EI as an illegal payroll tax and then, using that money to ‘pay down the deficit’ and boast. Fobbing off costs on to the provinces – and then, boasting about ‘no deficits’. And, using this power to hand over billions in contracts and special deals to that backroom cabal – Desmarais-PowerCorp.
    This is the legacy of Chretien-Martin-Mulroney. Now, what is going on? They were booted from power by an electorate sick of the corruption, who moved Harper and the CPC – who are outside of this cabal..into power.
    The Cabal has been trying to get back into political power since then. They’ve used their buddies, the MSM, to mount vicious propaganda against Harper and the CPC. They’ve used their patronage chamber, the Senate, to water down bills (eg, accountability), to stop, to hold up, to prevent legislation.
    So, there are two areas of Liberal conflict. There’s personal ambitions – Chretien vs Martin. And Ignatieff vs Rae. And, there’s the agenda of power of the Cabal.
    As I understand it, Rae is linked to Desmarais-Power; that is, he’s part of the Cabal. Ignatieff is not – but – he’s in this business only for himself. His ego as an elite internationalist, a descendent of the Russian imperial house, moves him to consider being ‘crowned’ PM of Canada as an ‘inherent right’ of nobility. So, both candidates for Liberal Kingship are deeply flawed. And both are competing with each other – the dissension continues in the Liberal camp.
    My suspicion is that Chretien wants an early election to get rid of Ignatieff; he hopes he’d lose and that Rae would take over. That would be the key step to moving the Cabal back into power.

  26. BBC, NY Times,at Harvard Carr Centre of Human Rights, associate critic for human rights in the shadow cabinet. Beat by Stephan Dion. Add the teaching at Cambridge and Oxford and the guy is walking ad for things that are lofty but don’t work too well. Britain has human rights ’till they are coming out the wazoo but is a failing society. USA has human rights ’till they are coming out the wazoo and is a failing superpower that doesn’t follow it’s own constitution. Every right you get is a loss of freedom. Choices scare some people, they actually have to make a decision and live with it. How much easier to be accountable for nothing.

  27. A carpet bagging American wannbe for our Prime Minister . . . . only a Liberal could wet dream over that one.

  28. Looks good ‘ET’, but what does ‘Cretian’ know that we don’t. It’s like ‘mr. deeds and the butler’. He is very sneaky.

  29. “Girls found him sweet and solicitous, with a pixie-ish sense of humour. In his final years, he had an adoring girlfriend at Bishop Strachan, the nearby private school for girls. (His sexual initiation took place at a campground north of Toronto; he remembers the gravel against his knees and elbows was excruciating.)”
    I get a creepy feeling about him whenever I remember Iggys description of losing his virginity. I gather the Bishop Strachan girl was rather rough with the strapon.

  31. It really is too bad that politics has become as distasteful as it has. The Libs paint the Cons, the Cons paint the Libs, the Dippers paint, wait who cares who or what the Dippers paint.
    Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Either side will do just about anything to sieze the mantle of power. Afterall, we’re talking 250 billion dollar budgets north of the 49th and 3.5 trillion to the south of it. Rather than trade critisism on policies, we’ve collectively entered the gutter, attacking each other as unworthy to lead. WTF is that all about? Abetted by compliant media, who knows which way is up anymore?
    Which brings me full circle to Iggy’s speech. Platudinous (See MacPherson @ NP) at best but short on policy, he attacked Cons as if they (we) had no vision. WTF? Two central mainstays to Chretien’s longevity as PM were Conservative planks: Free Trade and the GST. And they say we have no vision?
    Just attempt to shread each other’s policies rather than each other and accept that all of us care for our country.

  32. Already past the Big Six-O, Iggy is, eh?
    I see… he says to himself, “Getting Oh-El-Dee… better hurry up and steal power before I start to look too feeble and confused, next to young Stephen, to be perceived as being up to the demands of the Prime Ministership…”

  33. Merle Underwood – I think that the Cretan is worried about the Senate and the Secret Trust Funds. The Senate has some retirees this year and I think the Owe is about to force all aliens holding Trust accounts in US to pay taxes on those holdings – would that include all that money the UN gang and some Liberanos got from selling the cheap oil they bought from Saddam (instead of trading for food, as mandated) before W and Britain and the coalition put a fork in that racket.
    If people want to ‘find’ the real Ikky they should read his early book: “The Russian Album”, it is about his Russian family. Ikky’s Russian grandparents were Russian Aristocrats but his Grandad worked for a living as the Education Min to Czar Nicolas II. The Education system in Russia, prior to WWI, was probably one of the best in the world and Count Ignatieff was the Architect. The middle class of Russia was becoming a real force and these entrepreneurs wanted a say in government. Count Ignatieff was a Russian Liberal, he was in favor of a Republic type system. Ikky’s great great grandfather (on his grandma’s side) had been a soldier during the time of Czar Nicolas I; he had been a major player in storming the Gates of Vienna and gained a huge estate for his valor.
    Ikky’s Dad’s family consisted of five handsome brothers and the Count and Countess. The family were ‘rescued’ by the British nanny that the family had employed for the boys during the Russian Revolution. The uncles of Ikky were not successful in Canada. In the book Ikky wrote he offers these uncles and grandparents no compassion for their failure to be successful, rich and powerful in Canada. He is ashamed of them.
    The Russian Album illustrates the type of person Ikky is, IMO.

  34. Two things;
    1. This site has its head up the USA’s butt all the time anyway so what’s the big deal ?
    2. Be nice thats the next Prime Minister you are talking about . . . .

  36. gray
    The next prime minister will be whoever succeeds Harper in the CPC.
    That, and I’ll show your loser candidate the same respect you leftards show the current PM.
    Now, don’t you have summer school starting up soon, kid? Now run along there boy.

  37. AAH should that not read “CANADA not worth living in unless they ANOINT you Prime Minister” just askin’

  38. What exactly is a pixie-ish sense of humor?
    They laughed at his peter-pan get-away flip-flps or what?

  39. When I first began spending time in the People’s Republic of Quebec, I wondered how a pioneering people, whose ancestors had carved a society out of a brutal wilderness, could be reduced to dutifully separating their garbage and cheerfully withholding peanut butter from their kid’s lunchbox.
    I also wondered why, in a place that is understood to be economically depressed, everyone seems to have a big shiny new car or truck, and a surprising number of the working class indulge in the notoriously expensive hobby of keeping horses as pets.
    Gradually, it dawned on me that government was treated much the same as in-laws: nod and smile when they’re at the table, and when they leave, do what you want.

  40. As Canadians are so stuck on image, I think the CPC should really play up the photogenic, spunky, all-Canadian, youthful, motorcycle riding, kitten rescuing, etc. Laureen Harper versus the much older, not so telegenic, Hungarian turned lately Canadian wife of Iggy.
    No contest.

  41. Dionky Baseball’s Artless Museum: Iggy’s Latest Hanging.
    Scratch a Liberal, find …
    …-
    “New Platform”
    urlm.in/civf

  42. pok – heh, yes, you’re right.
    There’s an enormous black market economy in Quebec with lots of cash transactions that avoid any and all taxes. There’s also an enormous ripping off of govt funded projects, where material and equipment paid by the govt will simply disappear into the private sector.
    Then, any non-Quebecer, i.e., ‘Canadian’, is fair game for a rip-off – whether it be in legal transactions, repairs and construction work (big time rip offs here) etc.
    And, since all govt funding is assumed to be coming from ‘Canada’, any and all tactics of obtaining that money are used. This can be as minor as the parking lot attendant asking you how much you want him to mark in your parking receipt (for which you will be reimbursed by your govt) to insisting on govt funding for any and all projects.
    And, the check-ups to see whether/not these monies were actually spent as requested in the application is non-existent to cursory. Computers, DVDs, special high tech equipment, vacations, travel – you name it, and it will all be paid for by some govt grant. Administrators live off these funds; the monies spent on the project are almost minimal.
    Whole families can live this way, with those govt funds going to hire various relatives. Again, the black market is enormous, forcing Charest to repeatedly remind Quebecers of the problems with such a lifestyle. These include the govt being unable to maintain roads – which are a mess in Quebec; unable to maintain clean water and so on.
    Federal funds pour into the province, and into the pockets of private citizens. That’s The Quebec Way.

  43. T could give us his full name, I mean, the extra three letters won’t crash the server.

  44. ET — Very good account of the Liberal Party in power and its pattern of deception and abuse. I too think Iggy is in this as a personal career move. One of the things I always liked about Harper is that he did not start out planning to be Prime Minister and had to be talked into taking on the leadership of CA. By contrast, Iggy has noted advice he received from Trudeau re at what stage to go after the brass ring. So he has had this possible move to being Prime Minister in mind for a very long time.
    I think he is a BIG ego (his treatment of some of his local party members reflects this), he is in it for his career — worse yet, because he has such a sense of entitlement, I don’t think he would understand the difference between pursuing the Prime Ministership for himself and pursuing it for the good of the country.

  45. Just attempt to shread each other’s policies rather than each other
    Until Shawinigate gets a proper investigation,
    I’ll shread the Liberals personal ethics forever.

  46. Jema54 — Interesting note re the Senate and the Trust Funds. I guess part of our problem is the alignment of the MSM and the Liberal party, but also I think many in journalism lack the interest to really go after some of this stuff. Where is Canada’s Bob Woodward? I think the journalists are all in it for their own careers and do not feel the importance of journalism as part of the public trust. Many bloggers are much more thorough in investigating things. I think most journalists have sold out long ago — and the marketplace is now reflecting that.

  47. Do you notice that if you are not a fan of the Liberals or liberals, you are automatically in bed with the Americans?
    ..and if you give ten good reasons as to why Iggy is a bad choice for PM, they can only counter with..
    b-b-b-but -but..he will be the PM..!! Just because..
    Canadians are seeing for the first time in a long time what a competent, nationalistic leader looks like.
    Prime Minister Harper.
    Get used to the name lefties, you are going to hear it for a while, long after Iggy has gone back to his real home, the USA.
    Who’s beholden to the yanks again?

  48. Message for T, if not mentioned above.
    PMSH is/has a minority, so how will your numbers make a difference. You have just said we should elect another PM government.
    And, you must have also failed math like MIMI has.
    Libs already have most of Atlantic Canada, not enough left to win and get even a minority govt for MIMI.
    Quebec will stick with the Bloc and not enough seats to pick up from others to get a minority govt. Ontario will not go 100% liberal, except maybe Toronto. Still not enough to get a minority govt. And if you really think MIMI will get a majority of the 91 seats out west, enjoy your dream, wont happen.
    We do thank you for being in favor of another PMSH government.

  49. OK, put on your conspiracy theory hat on for a minute:
    What if Iggy is part of the on going master plan of the Bilderberg Group: To overtake the world by financial means, where having the North American Union is part of the overall scheme?
    The Obama white house could secretly help Iggy get elected through timed organized events and disclosures published by the willing and corrupt MSM.
    The O admin is already “working” on weakening Canada via Dem congress “buy american” protectionalism.
    Iggy with his new best friend Barrack could then swoon the canuck sheeples into the wonderful benefits of a North American Union.
    What about Mexico you ask? The southern country is being distabilized and weakened as we speak by increasingly more powerful drug cartels where the main consumer/driver US still refuses to legalise drugs which would be the end of those same cartels. The swine flu is also an added bonus to further erode and finish off Mexico. An easy take over is imminent.
    Once Mexico “on board” then Canada is that much easier to finish off.
    Iggy could be a Bildenberg plant.
    For more on this conspiracy theory see: The Obama Deception on you tube.

  50. when did my fellow countrymen become so ignorant that they think words will change anything?

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