Anything Indonesia can do….

h/t Lance

Dave “Coalition if necessary, but not necessarily a coalition” – didn’t Michael Ignatieff say this?”
Bob: “No.”
Update: Now on video!

A nation yawns.
From the comments – “‘The Conservatives spent too much money not fast enough and we think working a whole 8 weeks is good enough to sit on your duff for the rest of the year’ has to be one of the catchiest campaign slogans ever. Go for it, Ig.”

Via Bourque

Damn.
Here’s a man I could have voted for…

Following a 2005 lecture at the University of Dublin’s Trinity College, Ignatieff excoriated Canadians for trading on Canada’s “entirely bogus reputation as peacekeepers” for 40 years and for favouring “hospitals and schools and roads” over international citizenship. “If you are a human rights defender and you want something done to stop [a] massacre, you have to go to the Pentagon, because no one else is serious,” Ignatieff said.
“It’s disgusting in my own country, and I love my country, Canada, but they would rather bitch about their rich neighbour to the south than actually pay the note,” he said, in response to a question about peacekeeping. “To pay the bill to be an international citizen is not something that they want to do.”

Of course, that means he’d have been running for office in the US, and I’d be voting Republican.

From the party that considers “cowboy” an insult;

“[Mr. Harper] is a politician formed and shaped in the radical conservative ideological world of Calgary…”

More here…
Via

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Warren Kinsella’s Spin Machine – “…we’d like a Minister of Immigration who isn’t a xenophobic mouth-breather…[imposing visa restrictions on the Czech Republic is] taking Canada back to the days when it closed the door to Jewish migrants trying to flee Nazi Europe.”
Paul Wells Wayback Machine – “[The Chretien government] reinstated visa restrictions on the Czech Republic [in 1997] in hopes of discouraging immigration by Czech Gypsies, or Roma, after more than 1,200 arrived this year seeking protection as refugees.”

But thanks for asking.

“the west has always been french, never forget that”

Not to be confused with Quebec…

“Canada has to be out of the asbestos business. We should not export it and we should not produce it”.

(Plus a “he was quick to add” bonus link!)

“Not to be outdone, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and Toronto Centre MP Bob Rae walked the parade route alongside a Liberal float, from which a drag queen in a lime green dress swivelled her hips.”

“Mr. Ignatieff’s reinterpretation of the Pauchay story wouldn’t be worth a second thought if he weren’t leader of the Liberal Party and possibly Canada’s next prime minister.”

h/t Bourque

“You know what made me a partisan? The Liberals.” – Mike Duffy
h/t Bourque

And that’s why Liberals get their offices for free!

Take notice that Satgur Investments Ltd hereby terminates and forfeits the Lease date 1st day November, 2008, between Satgur Investments Ltd as Landlord, Dr Ruby Dhalla, in capacity as Member of Parliament as Tenant, by reason of contractual default in the Tenant’s leasehold improvement maintenance and repair requirements.
And further take notice that Satgur Investments Ltd reserves all rights to claim all rents remaining unpaid by the Tenant pursuant to the said Lease, and the rights to claim damages as compensation for its loss of benefits during the unexpired term of the said Lease.
Dated at Brampton, this 26th day of May 2009

The good old days when a Liberal could count on Public Works to pay the bills seem so long ago now…
Update – commentors point out, quite rightly, that this may not be a case of unpaid rent, but of those Filipino cleaning ladies falling down on the job….
Update 2 – Steve Janke indicates the matter has been “resolved”, in a post that is tellingly devoid of any explanation from Dhalla.

When I ran across this quote last evening in the comments, I cringed a little, assuming it came from some quasi-supremacist twit that the Liberals were attempting to link to the Conservatives…

“We created the country you live in. Never forget it.”

Turns out it’s just the same old “we’re Canadian and you’re not” Liberal campaign rhetoric. The more things change, eh western Canada?
Sounds funny, though, coming from the lips of an American.
Ignatieff translated;

When I was 17 I knocked on doors for Lester Pearson, even though he gave us a flag that looks like a “poor imitation of a Beer label”
In 1968 I campaigned for Pierre Trudeau. They I buggered off for 34 years.
Now I need your votes so you can have me stay in Canada. If I am not elected, I will go back to teach at Harvard. Hey it’s your loss.

Canada: not worth living in unless they’ll make you prime minister.

“If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back”

h/t

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
May 11th – “Our Party has raised, and will continue to raise, the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka in the House of Commons. We will continue to demand action by the Canadian government to address the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka.”
May 23rd – “A suspicious overnight fire that gutted a Sri Lankan restaurant is evidence that the Tamil Tigers are “on the rampage in Toronto,” charged Sri Lanka’s consul general, who said the Sinhalese eatery had been previously targeted and harassed by Tiger flag-waving motorists.”
h/t Maz2

Monte Solberg is furious at his party;

Of course it was absolutely fair when the Liberals ran attack ads against Stephen Harper when he became the leader of the Conservative Party.
I mean it was clear at the time that a smart, ambitious resident of Canada like Harper could potentially be the prime minister, and therefore his past views could be relevant.
Apply the same brilliant logic to the case of Ignatieff and you instantly see that it is unfair to hold him to the same standards.
Unfair because who could ever have expected that a Canadian who lived in the U.S. for eons and spoke of the United States as his country could ever hope to be prime minister?

Oh, dear. Look what we started. “Dhalla faces new allegations from Ont. senior”

Villanueva says Dhalla called and asked her to retract her May 13th retraction. She refused. “They took advantage of my age. They thought I’m not going to fight back. I am fighting back.”

I’ll pay $10 for a photo of Ruby Dhalla with her hands wrapped around a granny’s throat.
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Paul Wells revisits Ignatieff’s “pronoun problem”, saying in several paragraphs what I’ve been saying in a subject line over the past few months.

There’s been grumbling in Liberal ranks about what some call Ignatieff’s “pronoun problem” ever since he moved to Toronto in 2005. His pronoun problem is his tendency to use the first person plural — we, our — when discussing a country that isn’t Canada.

(Then again, I don’t get paid by the word).

Can you imagine somebody getting elected president of the United States whose 30-year stint outside the United States had ended less than three years earlier? Can you imagine a president of France who’d lived for 30 years in San Francisco or Seoul?

And even then, he pulls up just short of the finish line.
It’s not just that Ignatieff has lived more than 30 years out of Canada (though that alone should disqualify him), Mr. Wells. It’s that the only reason he’s back is to add another line to his resume. And therein lies Iggy’s real “pronoun problem”.
Canada – not worth living in unless they’ll make you Prime Minister.

From Ignatieff’s first scrum;

Question: So you take [Ruby Dhalla] at her word but not the nannies? You can’t have both.
Michael Ignatieff: Merci

Heh.