Maybe if he spent more time in Canada, he'd have learned that we have 6 time zones, not the 4 he wrote about in his latest book.
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In his new book, True Patriot Love, Mr. Ignatieff refers to Canada's 33 million people, "with competing and conflicting myths of origin, spread across four time zones..."
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…Yet his talk in public grows increasingly sloppy, even on minor points. This week he declared the Liberals are now “more united than ever.” Could be, of course, but how would he know? He’s been a Liberal only since 2005, an MP only since 2006 and party leader only since December. His only basis for comparison is with the increasingly fractious caucus led by his unfortunate predecessor, Stéphane Dion. Or does he simply believe what his followers say to him in private?
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…This week it was hard to avoid the thought that we are watching a kind of psycho-drama, the acting out of a politician who has discovered that he’s become a party leader without knowing what leadership means. Ignatieff has never been in a cabinet, and has therefore never worked closely with a leader. Much of what he’s learned has surprised him, as he tells Adam Gopnik in the Sept. 7 issue of The New Yorker. His remarks there make his peculiar behaviour understandable as an attempt to redefine himself on the run…
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