I became a Conservative in 1980. I was six years old and I wandered in where my parents and friends were watching Pierre Trudeau defeat Joe Clark in the general election. I asked what happened and I was told that a bad man had taken power and a good man had lost. Oh did I [...]
Ralph Goodale
The Cold Shoulder?
There is a good article in the Walrus on why Canadians have not warmed up to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. Despite his earlier run for the prize, Ignatieff remained an unknown quantity, a stranger in our midst. He was our first deconstructionist politician: he kept repeating that political leadership was about storytelling without ever telling [...]
