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Tasha Kheiriddin: Is that a whiff of sulfur coming from the Liberal bus?

Tasha Kheiriddin  July 12, 2010 – 11:30 am

 

Chris Wattie / Reuters

Michael Ignatieff greets the seven-month-old son of a Liberal supporter in Sudbury, Ont., on Sept. 2, 2009.

And he’s off. “Door by door, handshake by handshake, baby by baby,” Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has set out on his summer barbeque tour, to win the confidence of Canadian voters.
That’s fine, as long as he remembers to shake hands and not babies. But it’s Mr. Ignatieff’s additional comments about Prime Minister Stephen Harper which are raising eyebrows in the barbeque pits of the nation. As in, “Canadians can smell the whiff of sulphur coming off this guy” — sulfur being a literary metaphor for the devil, most recently used by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to describe U.S. President George W. Bush.One has to wonder what Mr. Ignatieff was thinking. If there was a casting call to play Lucifer, I doubt Mr. Harper would get the part, whereas Mr. Ignatieff… well, let’s just say my mother has remarked more than once that he has a devilish look about him, and not in a good way.

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