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Ms. May won't be at the debates so that's a moot point.
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Indeed. I wonder if it has something to do with not liking the messenger.
Personally, I find them both to be reasonable to understand in French but that Harper seems more fluid like he "thinks" the language a bit better. They're both anglophones though - Harper with a strong English Canadian accent and Ignatieff with an American/Parisian accent.
I was pretty sure that Chantal Hebert had rated Harper's french higher than Ignatieff's:
http://blogues.lactualite.com/hebert/?p=354
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"spend more time practicing his French with his entourage before going onto the set of [Radio-Canada's] Tout le monde en parle in mid-April."
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"many Liberals and all the journalists concluded, while listening to Michael Ignatieff's speech in Laval last week, that he must either avoid making magisterial speeches in French or learn to master a teleprompter if he wants to fire up the crowds in Quebec — or at the very least not put them to sleep — during the next election campaign."
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"While he seeks his words, his message goes up in smoke. "
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In other news:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/...-coaltion.html
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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff vowed Friday that his party would never enter into a governing coalition and said he could make Parliament work without such a deal.
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