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The frontrunner heading into the convention is Michael Ignatieff, a former Harvard professor and political newcomer who has spent almost no time in Canada in the past three decades. Still, Ignatieff appeared to be the kind of ideal candidate the backroom Liberal establishment hungered for as the race began following...
But somewhere between the starting gate and the last few laps to the finish line, things went wrong for Ignatieff. Even though the 59-year-old won 30% of the roughly 4,000 elected convention delegates from across Canada, pundits agree that any of the other three leading finalists could...
Ignatieff may have been harmed by several campaign gaffes, including a series of contorted positions on Israel's summer bombing campaign in Lebanon. He stated that he wouldn't "lose any sleep" over collateral damage that included the death of several Lebanese infants, then subsequently declared that Israel had committed...
With Rae in second place coming into the convention, the remaining two in the leading pack of candidates are St?phane Dion and Gerard Kennedy. Dion is a 51-year-old political science professor and former federal environment minister that then Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien recruited as his national unity crusader...
As the voting was set to begin, though, there were signs that the Liberals couldn't escape their past. Outside the convention center young New Democrats were handing out their own version of a Montreal guide to prominent tourist sites in the historic city. The NDP "Map to the Scars...