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...Ottawa A New Liberal Leader In Canadian politics' latest shake-up, the opposition Liberal Party has replaced leader Stéphane Dion with former academic Michael Ignatieff a week after Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended Parliament until January to avoid a no-confidence vote. Many felt that Dion's flubs hurt the opposition's power-grab attempt...
Michael G. Ignatieff, former professor at the Kennedy School of Government and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, assumed leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada yesterday...
Michael G. Ignatieff, a human rights expert and former Kennedy School of Government professor, announced his intentions on Thursday to seek leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party. If the Liberal Party wins a majority in the next parliamentary election, the leader of the party will become Prime Minister. Ignatieff, who left his position as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in December 2005 for a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto, lost a controversial bid for this same party leadership position in 2006. That loss was credited mostly to the 27 years he spent...
According to the Citizen, Power had wished Ignatieff well “in his political endeavours,” but worried that doing so could be seen as a statement from the Obama campaign against the government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper...
...report posted on The Citizen’s Web site, Power said she hopes that Ignatieff becomes the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, but that she did not mention either the current leader of the party, Stéphane Dion, or Harper by name...