Concrete Suggestions: Michael Ignatieff

Old Scores Dept: This peculiar assertion made no allowance for any of the obvious strategic failures of the 2011 Liberal campaign. It overlooked the cavernous changes that have taken hold of both Canadian politics and the Liberal party since 2003, according to The Star. Still, it may have inadvertently helped to point the way toward an important insight: It s time for the Liberal party to get over itself. Rear view recriminations will do exactly nothing to help renew and revitalize the party. Canadians could not be less interested. Old scores will simply have to go unsettled in service to the larger and more urgent project of bringing Liberals together and reigniting their sense of purpose and recently, the rather novel argument was advanced in these pages that Michael Ignatieff s historic defeat in 2011 was the fault of Paul Martin. Most important of all, it offered no concrete suggestions as to how the party might claw its way from the prison of third place or reconnect with Canadians in a persuasive and lasting fashion. It was the rather sad echo of old warhorses waging old wars. As reported in the news.
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