Thursday, November 23, 2006

Iggy, Then and Now

Then, when the whole Quebec nation thing blew up in Iggy's face and he wanted to spread the stink around:

Mr. Ignatieff charged that Mr. Rae is falsely trying to portray him as the candidate who would lead the country into a constitutional crisis.

"Bob Rae is misleading Canadians on this issue. All four of the front-runners have said that they recognize Quebec as a nation . . . including Bob himself."

Now, that things may not have worked out too badly:

It really did start with us, in the leadership campaign, going into small towns in Quebec, reaching out, listening to Quebecers...

But what shall tomorrow bring?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

nobody loves Iggy the way Iggy does.

He's very prime on himself

Anon said...

Those two statements aren't even contradictory. He's saying that:

(1) He brought this issue to the table and even first wrote about it 13 years ago and (2) All leadership candidates agree that Quebec is a nation.

Those are perfectly legitimate and true statements. Are you really getting that desperate? This is absolute garbage.

bigcitylib said...

When the "nation" thing went sour, Iggy and his people spent their efforts trying to implicate the other leadership candidates. Bob Rae started it. Everybody supported the concept. Etc.

Now, suddenly, it was Iggy's idea.

Anonymous said...

Iggy never said that it was Bob Rae's idea. He was saying the Rae and the other candidates agreed with him. The fact that other candidates agreed with him doesn't change the fact that Ignatieff is the one to push this forward.