Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Iggy... "This is Canada, not Australia"

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff...

Ignatieff dismissed calls that Canada should have followed Australia’s policy on refugees and turned the Tamil refugee boat away.

"This is Canada, not Australia," Ignatieff said. "That means Canada has principles, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, our international obligations."
To all my Aussie friends... sorry mates.  I guess you don't have principles or rights and freedoms.

If this Liberal summer tour was to prepare Iggy for an actual campaign, maybe it's a good thing he's trying to stuff as many feet in his mouth as he can, because when the actual campaign happens, he would have gotten it all out of his system by then, wouldn't he?

5 comments:

Patrick Ross said...

I can't help but wonder if Ignatieff is aware of how uncomfortably close his party has gotten to the Tamil Tigers. He could stand to put some distance between his party and the LTTE.

This isn't the way to do it.

CanadianSense said...

Clueless in York-ville starring Michael Ignatieff.

Can't understand how he can get so many basic facts wrong, his NASA-handlers may be allowing him to go off script in order to speed up the leadership review after the next election.

The more Ignatieff speaks my impression of Dion improves.

Anonymous said...

CanadianSense said...

The more Ignatieff speaks my impression of Dion improves.

OMG, funny.

ebt said...

This is Canada and not Australia? How the hell would HE know?

wilson said...

Liked Ezra's idea of policy change so as the migrants aren't let go into the general population, until their refugee status is decided....Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands.