Michael Ignatieff at Authors' Festival in Toronto: 'Make no mistake you're stuck with me'
Posted: October 25, 2009, 4:47 PM by Scott Maniquet
By Ron Nurwisah, National Post
"It's nice to be an author for an hour," Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said to the audience at his Sunday afternoon event at the Toronto International Authors' Festival,
It's easy to forget that before Michael Ignatieff threw himself into the messy battlefield of Canadian politics he had another life as an essayist, lecturer and novelist. But Sunday's event raised a few questions: would it be a conversation with Michael Ignatieff about his new book, True Patriot Love, or would it become a mini Liberal-party rally? More importantly, when you're at a literary festival in downtown Toronto is it actually possible to separate the two?
Fortunately, Ignatieff and his interviewer, the Walrus Magazine's John MacFarlane, kept partisan politics to a quiet undercurrent. If MacFarlane asked questions about Ignatieff's childhood toys, the conversation would undoubtedly have been seen through the lens of politics. Expecting anything else when you're interviewing the second-most important political figure in Canada would've been silly.
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