True Patriot Love

The Conservative response to a recent Liberal video, in which Michael Ignatieff talks about his Russian father coming to Canada, has been posted on here and here. Obviously, the Tory line that Ignatieff’s immigrant roots count for less because he descends from Russian aristocracy is an example of the crudest partisan spin.

Robert L. Fraser is unimpressed with True Patriot Love.

Gilles Duceppe gives Michael Ignatieff a blurb for the soft cover edition of True Patriot Love.

His version of what happened to ‘the sick little girls’ amounts to tasteless opportunism

True patriot love? From a man who’s spent most all of his adult life outside Canada?

Ignatieff is too honest. “Talk about the audacity of hope. The newly crowned leader of the federal Liberal Party seems to be hoping that we can handle the truth in politics, despite the considerable body of evidence that we’d prefer to hear fairy tales from our politicians.”

There’s a good book to be written about the Ignatieff family. ‘True Patriot Love’ isn’t it.

Somewhat surprising paragraph from the definitive Zoomer profile of Michael Ignatieff.

Michael Ignatieff talks to the Star.

Twenty-seven more minutes of conversation. About nine-and-a-half minutes in they move on from True Patriot Love to talking about Ignatieff’s political career. Haven’t got time to watch it all before QP. Will go ahead and assume there are at least half a dozen attack ads in there somewhere.

Got it: Will. Sacrifice. One people. But how to square this with his idea of Quebec’s nationhood?

Michael Ignatieff talks with Kenneth Whyte about how personal history fuelled his political vision