Michael Ignatieff: Sacrificial Lamb
Bruce_the_vii @ Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:56 am
Michael Ignatieff: Sacrificial Lamb.
Michael Ignatieff is basically a lamb. There will be a ritualistic cutting of his throat in the New Year. The act should purify the Liberal camp in Ottawa. It will put actual meat on the Liberal political plate.
The issue is his ability to make a proper political judgement. The decline of the economies of the main cities of Canada will be the Alter.
Here’s the gist. In 1990 the 905 suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area reached full employment, Alberta pre-recession levels of economic performance. However, currently the 416 City of Toronto half of the area has real unemployment of 18% compared to the 1990 suburban peak. The United Way reports that in 2007 families with children average income was $12,800 less than the Ontario average. The City of Toronto has been subtly hollowed out. This is after Ottawa bought into the theory immigration will drive the economy and added 1.9 million immigrants to the area without actually paying any attention what so ever to what the actual effect of this economic strategy was.
Liberal MP Judy Sgro has taken these economic problems of Toronto and the other major cities to Ignatieff and leaked to me that he does not get it. He is missing the idea politics is economics. He's just a lame lamb.
It’ll be interesting how they stage the act. The situation requires a Grand Performance. The Conservative Party of Canada has set the stage up perfectly I must say, is in ownership of the economic problem. We’ll have to see how the view from the cheap seats is.
martin14 @ Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:14 am
gee. i thought whats his face....................... dion......was the lamb.
The Libs are starting to look a little Italian in their leaders
redhatmamma @ Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:38 pm
Don't you think they'll let him go through the next election first, have to give him a chance 
Mustang1 @ Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:06 pm
Two things - Iggy will be given a leadership review after a federal election and secondly, politics is not simply economics.
Thanos @ Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:16 pm
$1:
This is after Ottawa the Liberals and NDP bought into the theory immigration will drive the economy and added 1.9 million immigrants to the area without actually paying any attention what so ever to what the actual effect of this economic strategy was.
Changed that one for accuracy. The only reason that the Tories ever go along with any of this pro-immigration blather is because the deck's been stacked in favour of political correctness. Anyone who questions immigration policy that originated from the Trudeau era automatically gets labelled as a racist, especially by the national media, no matter how much that ridiculous plan has been proven over time to be an abyssmal failure.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:27 am
2 sacrifical lambs in a row...hmm 3rd time's a charm?
Bruce_the_vii @ Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:04 am
There's this Big Cheese problem in Ottawa, in the Democracies. Here in Canada they had to forceably eject Diefenbaker, Stockwell Day, and Chretien. The caucus or party revolted on them. Now the media is telling us only a few select cabinet ministers are allowed to argue with Prime Minister Stephan Harper. I can make out, other people I talk politics with can make out, that Michael Ignatieff fell into the trap rather quickly - likes been in control. He's our latest Big Cheese. The Parliament is hung, the Opposition is forced to support the Government which is very unstable, but at the same time both main parties are rather run by Big Wig. A shakeup is possible.
Bruce_the_vii @ Fri Dec 24, 2010 4:34 am
Mustang1 Mustang1:
Two things - Iggy will be given a leadership review after a federal election and secondly, politics is not simply economics.
Perhaps politics is not simply economics. For my education do you Mustang have some best lines about what politics is then. It's pretty complex but do you have something short and pithy about that.
Mustang1 @ Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:17 am
I've borrowed this before, but i've always seen politics as the activity of gathering, promoting and maintaining support (and that includes disagreements) for human endeavors. Politics, at its most basic level, is the interaction between humans and government emerges as a mechanism for organization (and all its complexities).
Zipperfish @ Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:11 am
Bruce_the_vii Bruce_the_vii:
Michael Ignatieff: Sacrificial Lamb.
Michael Ignatieff is basically a lamb. There will be a ritualistic cutting of his throat in the New Year. The act should purify the Liberal camp in Ottawa. It will put actual meat on the Liberal political plate.
The issue is his ability to make a proper political judgement. The decline of the economies of the main cities of Canada will be the Alter.
Here’s the gist. In 1990 the 905 suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area reached full employment, Alberta pre-recession levels of economic performance. However, currently the 416 City of Toronto half of the area has real unemployment of 18% compared to the 1990 suburban peak. The United Way reports that in 2007 families with children average income was $12,800 less than the Ontario average. The City of Toronto has been subtly hollowed out. This is after Ottawa bought into the theory immigration will drive the economy and added 1.9 million immigrants to the area without actually paying any attention what so ever to what the actual effect of this economic strategy was.
Liberal MP Judy Sgro has taken these economic problems of Toronto and the other major cities to Ignatieff and leaked to me that he does not get it. He is missing the idea politics is economics. He's just a lame lamb.
It’ll be interesting how they stage the act. The situation requires a Grand Performance. The Conservative Party of Canada has set the stage up perfectly I must say, is in ownership of the economic problem. We’ll have to see how the view from the cheap seats is.
Michael Ignatieff is basically a lamb. There will be a ritualistic cutting of his throat in the New Year. The act should purify the Liberal camp in Ottawa. It will put actual meat on the Liberal political plate.
The issue is his ability to make a proper political judgement. The decline of the economies of the main cities of Canada will be the Alter.
Here’s the gist. In 1990 the 905 suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area reached full employment, Alberta pre-recession levels of economic performance. However, currently the 416 City of Toronto half of the area has real unemployment of 18% compared to the 1990 suburban peak. The United Way reports that in 2007 families with children average income was $12,800 less than the Ontario average. The City of Toronto has been subtly hollowed out. This is after Ottawa bought into the theory immigration will drive the economy and added 1.9 million immigrants to the area without actually paying any attention what so ever to what the actual effect of this economic strategy was.
Liberal MP Judy Sgro has taken these economic problems of Toronto and the other major cities to Ignatieff and leaked to me that he does not get it. He is missing the idea politics is economics. He's just a lame lamb.
It’ll be interesting how they stage the act. The situation requires a Grand Performance. The Conservative Party of Canada has set the stage up perfectly I must say, is in ownership of the economic problem. We’ll have to see how the view from the cheap seats is.
Are you getting paid to post this stuff?
Bruce_the_vii @ Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:22 am
Yes, or rather I have some monetary self-interest in it (through a book and a legal case).
However the point that economic growth is leading to less than average jobs being created and has been and will continue to backslide Canada is a major point. This could be addressed by the Conservatives or by the Liberals. In most of Canada any group of a dozen adults will have someone with employment problems, this is a sleeping problem.
Bruce_the_vii @ Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:16 pm
Ignatieff is polling below, er, Gilles Duceppe in trustableness. Excellent, it won't be long now.
http://www.lfpress.com/comment/columnis ... 08951.html
EyeBrock @ Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:33 pm
Sacrificial lamb? Nah, just a bit of a dud. Pity, he did seem promising.
Who’s next? Bobby Rae? That would make three duds in a row. Four if you count Paul Martin.
The Libs are starting to make the Tories look good by default.
Bruce_the_vii @ Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:55 pm
Yeah, that is what the score appears to be - four, actually five, duds in a row. However I maintain there is a new Bob Rae. Chretien, Martin, Dion and the Ignatieff on the Liberal side and Harper on the Conservative side were ALL isolated leaders. My spidy sense is Rae is actually more in touch with the MPs, and the MPs are ready to rock. Look for some sparks. Ignatieff by comparision is a dreadful manager. Harper too. The stage is set in my view.
Freakinoldguy @ Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:13 pm
Just don't tell me that after Ignatieff's sacrifice on that altar of Liberal righteousness they're gonna make Justin Trudeau their next messiah. 
Although I must admit, it's kind of neat watching the self immolation of the Liberal Party since Trudeau isn't ready, Rae isn't sellable and Iggy is just to dense to know he's doomed. So really, if we go to a spring election where does that leave the Liberal Party?
Hedy Fry maybe? 