I think the biggest issue here is secrecy in government facilitated by a co-dependent media. I was at the Liberal forum in Toronto and saw an older man with a 1980 Trudeau button try to get out some information…You can actually see the old guy on the CPAC video of the Toronto forum…
about Ignatieff’s numerous declarations of allegiance to America and to the United States’ constitution and congress which the older man quite logically concluded makes Ignatieff unfit because of a “conflict of allegiance”. The old guy handed out some flyers,one of which I kept, and after checking all of the allegations he made (I spent the last few evenings reading Ignatieff’s articles at the urls listed below); I found that,amazingly, the older gentlemen has a very good and very scary point. Yet none of the media reported what the old guy said; yet they had no problem reporting what the young lady in a thong had to say. It seems not only do the Liberal Party controllers not care about Ignatieff’s conflict of allegiance but that our media won’t even be reporting it. This may be good news for your old party (having a conflicted buffoon lead the Liberals) but it reveals a dangerous alliance between political party heavyweights and our major canadian media people which could eventually castrate real political news reporting in Canada as has already occurred in the land governed by what Ignatieff calls “american scripture” (can you believe our media has never reported that little quote from the Granta article he wrote?

http://www.granta.com/extracts/1643

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/opeds/2004/ignatieff_less_evils_nytm_050204.htm

http://www.whitman.edu/content/news/LivingFearlesslyinaFearfulWorld

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/backup/opeds/america_burden_ignatieff_nyt_010503.htm

Ignatieff WROTE these quotes (and much more)in the articles above;

“I believed in America in a way Canada never allowed”

“America is the only nation on earth that can command the
faith of people like me”

“I have taught in the university system of Canada but
American higher education is the best
in the world”

“Being an American is not easy. It is hard. We are required
to keep some serious promises. We are judged by a high
standard, one we crafted for ourselves in the founding
documents of the republic, the ones that talk about the
equality of all people, the ones that tell us that
government is of the people, by the people and for the
people. We need to live by this, at home and abroad, and it
is just about the only thing we can do to face the hatred of
those who want to destroy us.”

Multiple references to “Our american constitution”..”our
american congress”..”our
american way of life”

“America is the only nation that fills the hearts and minds
of an entire planet with its dreams and desires.”

as well as his infatuation with what he calls “american
scripture” (Granta
article).

I am glad you are now an independent and hope you remain one. Party politics has become a sewer of deceit and power peddling.

keep on keeping on,Garth