- The Iggy Book Club II: The Rights Revolution
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The Liberal Party of Canada has chosen Michael Ignatieff as its new leader. To help readers decide what kind of leadership Mr. Ignatieff might provide for Canada, members of the National Post editorial board are reading through Mr. Ignatieff’s oeuvre, discussing their impressions as they go. This week’s selection: Mr. Ignatieff’s collection of the 2000 Massey Lecture series, The Rights Revolution.
" He does more reconciling in one book than the average goddamn marriage counselor in an entire career."
COLBY COSH
The style of argument Michael Ignatieff displays in his book of Massey Lectures is curious, to say the least. He has spent so much time dropping great names of the Anglo-Saxon philosophical and humanist tradition, one would assume that in some sense he belonged to the class of what David Stove called “the hard men” of intellectual debate. Here, instead, is a thoroughly typical example of the technique by which Ignatieff characteristically presses home a point:
“The [essential Quebec-vs.-English Canada] problem is not one of rights or powers, but one of truth. We do not inhabit the same historical reality. And it is time we did. For two generations, English Canada has asked, with earnest respect, ‘What does Quebec want?’ It is time for English Canada to say who we are and what our country is. The answer is: we are a partnership of nations, a community of peoples united in common citizenship and rights. We do possess a common history, and like it or not, we had better begin sharing a common truth.”
Monday, December 22, 2008
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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