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| Ignatieff: How bold? |
| 09.25.06 (1:04 am) [edit] |
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Ignatieff is both bold and not. The Liberal party has limited discussion to only a few topics, the environment and Native issues being the two of the most prominent. This is one reason way the race has been so horribly boring and uninspiring. It must also be discouraging for die hard Liberals to know that the party is going to run on the virtually the same platform the lost with back in January. As for the candidates, it is hard to think of anyone being bold when they are unwilling to literally go off topic. That said, within the confines of what has been sanitized by the party, Ignatieff has indeed made some bold moves. He has embraced the ridiculously stupid idea of Native self government like virtually no other candidate. He proposed radical changes to the immigration system and he has come up with the best thought out environmental program of any of candidates. That said, the Liberal leadership debate does not exist in vacuum and circumstances have demanded that candidates comment on the agenda of the governing party and on world events. Stephen Harper broached the subject Quebec being a nation and constitutional reform and Ignatieff acted so boldly he has made the issues his own. He owns Afghanistan too, but it is the other candidates that have seen to it that he does. That said, however bold one might think Ignatieff, he is not the voice of a new generation. A promise to reopen the Constitutional debate might seem like a bold move too many baby boomers, but to Canadians, who have come of age after 1995 referendum, it feels like misplaced nostalgia. Of all the positions Ignatieff holds there is one in particular that cleaves down generational lines. Younger Canadians, who are already suspicious of him because of his support for Iraq, simply do not agree with his unwavering support for the Afghan mission. If Ignatieff truly wanted to appeal to a younger generation of Canadians, he should strike at social conservatism, a la Trudeau in 1968. During his first term in office Trudeau decriminalized homosexuality and made abortion and divorce more accessible. I, for one, want not only to kill social conservatism, I want to piss on the corpse as well. I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way either. |
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