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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Sure Crosby had a choice. Drafted players don't need to play in the NHL. He could have gimped his career and played in some serior league in Canada. Nobody would ever realistically expect him to do that... someone accepting international success is fine. Personally, I wouldn't want to vote for someone who didn't try to go as far as they could with their god-given talents. In Ignatieff's field, going to England to work at a top university was in the same ballpark as going to the majors.
Getting selected by a world's leading university to be a researcher is like being drafted into the NHL if you're in the academia field.
BTW, I don't even really like Ignatieff that much. His vocal support of George Bush's invasion of Iraq turned me off of him years ago. I just think it's shortsighted to knock the guy for taking his career to an international level.
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Yeah, I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of Ignatieff without getting into his personal history of residences. Like you, I have serious reservations about the foreign policy that he's advocated in the past, although that's mellowed considerably since he's become involved in federal politics. Which isn't particularly surprising: every politician moves toward a more moderate viewpoint out of need to appeal to a broader viewpoint: even Harper's perspectives as a leader are more moderate than what they were when he was simply a policy advisor in the reform party.