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Farewell to Quebec

Why did Michael Ignatieff decide to shoot his <a href="http://www.liberal.ca/en/blog/16277_watch-the-ads">new TV ad</a> in a forest?
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<li>Nice old lady in gingerbread house promised him free candies.</li>
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<li>Last-minute schedule conflict meant he first had to help Han Solo disable the shield generator.</li>
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<li>Has actually been lost there since June 18th, explaining his low-visibility summer.</li>
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<li>What better place to depict the energy and dynamism of the ultra-modern, globally competitive Canada he describes?</li>
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<li>Keen to solidify strong polling numbers among 18-to-34-year-old Sasquatches.</li>
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<li>Had to make the trip anyway to feed Denis Coderre to Aragog.</li>
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<li>Being a man of letters, he was determined to capture Walden’s spirit of simplicity while inadvertently evoking its whole “quiet desperation” argument.</li>
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<li>He’s been away from this country for, like, 35 years – you try to find your way to the TV studio.</li>
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<li>Setting seemed perfect as original script for ad read: “I&#8217;m praying to you! Look in your heart! I&#8217;m praying to you! Look in your heart! I&#8217;m praying to you! Look in your heart! I&#8217;m praying to you!”</li>
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