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Originally Posted by Pastiche
Harper has never had a 'real' job in his entire life. I'd take the guy who has worked in multiple disciplines in different countries over a guy who has essentially been a glad handing hack his entire career.
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A "real" job eh? Hmmm.. Perhaps you may be right. He has been involved in politics most of his life although mostly in the background.
As for Michael Igantieff? Well he is no shining example of someone who has had a "real" job (whatever that is).
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He was an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia from 1976 to 1978. In 1978 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he held a senior research fellowship at King's College, Cambridge until 1984. He then left Cambridge for London, where he began to focus on his career as a writer and journalist. During this time, he travelled extensively. He also continued to lecture at universities in Europe and North America, and held teaching posts at Oxford, the University of London, the London School of Economics, the University of California and in France.
While living in the United Kingdom, Ignatieff became well-known as a broadcaster on radio and television. His best-known television work has been Voices on Channel 4, the BBC 2 discussion programme Thinking Aloud and BBC 2's arts programme, The Late Show. His documentary series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on BBC in 1993. He was also an editorial columnist for The Observer from 1990 to 1993.
In 2000, Ignatieff accepted a position as the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2005, Ignatieff left Harvard to become the Chancellor Jackman Professor in Human Rights Policy at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow of the university's Munk Centre for International Studies.[15]
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So basically, Ignatieff's work history is academic, writer, tv/radio commentator, and now politician. All fine stuff mind you, but are any of those a "real" job?
