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Originally Posted by Rerun
Oh no, you are completely wrong. Igantieff intended to return to Canada even before those Liberal bagmen paid him a visit at Harvard. Canada was his home and after being away for 30 years he missed it terribly. Its just a huge coincidence that they (the Liberal moneymen) showed up at the same time as he was preparing to move anyways.
I personally know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Mikey and let me tell you this... he absolutely HATED pretending he was an American while he was down there teaching and he couldn't get out of Cambridge and England fast enough (damn Brits and there high faluting ways and all that).
You won't find a truer Canadian than Mikey. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that the only reason he came back to Canada was just to run the country. Thats just Conservative propaganda. Mikey's here because he knows that just by being here makes Canada a better place! Three cheers for Mikey!!! Ra Ra Ra!!!!
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Here's the
second funniest part of your post:
MP Salary: 155,400.
Full Professor at Harvard: varies, but well in excess of 250,000 USD. Plus consulting income, income from books and lecture tours--probably well in excess of 300,000 USD a year.
Those must have been some
nice plums that the "Liberal Moneymen" offered him to make up for what amounts to more than a $150,000 pay cut for Ignatieff.
But the
funniest part is this: Ignatieff actually came back to Canada
before he went into politics. In 2005 he accepted a job at the U of T, and at a Toronto policy center. He became an MP in 2006. Now, it's pretty clear that running for office was on his radar. It's equally clear that he had a back-up plan in place for staying in Toronto should politics not work out.
But please, carry on with the nativist nonsense. Because the thing is, even if your allegations were in line with the facts, they
still wouldn't add up to a good reason not to vote for him. It just seems a little... desperate to me. Like you know you haven't got a leg to stand on, so you lean on the nearest emotional hot button and hope it never stops working.
There are a lot of things I don't love about Ignatieff. He's professorial, he's a bit inexperienced politically--which is a big disadvantage when your opponent is a seasoned operator like Harper--and he doesn't seem to have a very effective communications strategy.
But criticizing him because he worked at Harvard for a while? I'm sorry--but that's just dumb.