Michael Ignatieff goes back to class in London Part 2

While federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff was speaking to a full house at the University of Western Ontario Tuesday afternoon, he admitted he would like to be the Prime Minister of Canada one day.

(I think he’ll get his wish as early as this fall).


[Glen Pearson, Liberal MP; Michael Ignatieff, Liberal leader: photo GAH]

He also said he would have one job as the Prime Minister of Canada:

“To make us feel we are one great people, that we are more than the sum of our parts, and that we can do more together than we can as individuals.”

Mr. Ignatieff sounds more interested in national unity than our current Prime Minister, who has been characterized in the past by Ignatieff as “a divider.”

After he answered questions admirably re health care issues, student debt, the Anglophone community and more, Liberal MP Glen Pearson thanked him for coming and noted that he feels Ignatieff has a researcher’s mind, is always trying to answer questions, yet asks just as many to others in return.

I came away thinking that Michael Ignatieff takes a more co-operative, inclusive approach to politics than Harper (a man with serious control-taking issues).

We’ll see which leader wins the most votes come September.

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