This one is about the woes of one Canadian who moved back to Canada from the US and is now running for office:
http://www.antiwrap.com/?838 Too American to Be Canadian? Sunday, January 8, 2006; B02 Anti-American sentiments are so robust in Canada that you apparently don't even have to be American to feel their sting -- American-by-association will do. Take the case of Michael Ignatieff, the Toronto-born political scientist and human rights expert who spent the last couple of decades teaching at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. When he returned to Canada late last year to run for Parliament, did he get a warm welcome home from the locals? Hardly. Ignatieff had to stand down hecklers shouting "American, American!" -- and this was at the candidate nomination meeting for his electoral district, from grass-roots members of his own Liberal Party. Ignatieff managed to win the nomination, but negative perceptions of his American -- and Bush-supporting -- veneer have dogged him on the campaign trail. The media have accused him of supporting "torture lite" for writing that legitimate interrogation can involve "some non-physical stress." He's been ridiculed for insulting the Ukrainian Canadian community with his complex (and nuanced) analysis of the Ukrainian experience under the Soviets in his 1995 book "Blood and Belonging." And he's been taunted for his support of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Ignatieff mostly shrugs off the hounding. Although he concedes that Canadians are more critical of the Bush administration than of any other U.S. administration in recent history, he doesn't believe that long-term anti-Americanism is a problem. And as for his own return to Canada, he says he has strictly national concerns at heart. "If you've been abroad, people have legitimate questions," he said in a telephone interview. "But the politics that run in my veins are Canadian politics." The question is, will he get to play them? -- Anna Morgan (c) 2006 The Washington Post Company ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:191093 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
