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rfmcdonaldLaywers, Guns and Money's Scott Lemieux is too kind.
Michael Ignatieff was parachuted parachuted into the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. I say "parachuted" since, up until that point, Ignatieff had no substantive connections with the riding apart from it being available as a base from which he could launch a political career (which, to be fair, at the time I thought to be the Liberals' best chance). He lost the riding yesterday, of course.
(Thanks for the correction on the riding location: 1:12 AM wasn't the most coherent time for me.)
Globe and Mail and the CBC calling a Conservative majority government, NDP not only official opposition (as widely predicted) but towards the top end of their range, Bloq wiped out. It even looks like the NDP will win my old riding, which used to have among the widest Liberal margins in the country.
If I wrote a satirical novel in which a particularly douchey “liberal hawk” took over Canada’s Natural Governing Party (TM), forced a completely unnecessary early election, and handed the conservative opposition a majority government while putting up the worst showing in the party’s history, I think it would seem a little heavy-handed.
… Iggy seems to be implying in his concession speech that he won’t resign. Clearly, he needs to hear some historical analogies from Tom Hagen.
Michael Ignatieff was parachuted parachuted into the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. I say "parachuted" since, up until that point, Ignatieff had no substantive connections with the riding apart from it being available as a base from which he could launch a political career (which, to be fair, at the time I thought to be the Liberals' best chance). He lost the riding yesterday, of course.
(Thanks for the correction on the riding location: 1:12 AM wasn't the most coherent time for me.)
