Iggy & the Bamster the real North American Union

Even though it’s socialist New Democrat Party Leader Jack Layton who has been media-dubbed “the Barack Obama of Canada”, the similarities between Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and the U.S. president are more eerily striking. On Monday President Barack Obama launched his 2012 re-election bid electronically. The day before Ignatieff launched “Canada’s first live streamed platform launch” for Canadian Prime Ministership in the May 2 election he and the Opposition Parties imposed on the people of Canada when they joined in on the non-confidence vote that brought the Stephen Harper Conservative Government down.

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“At 11:00 am EDT, I will unveil the Liberal Platform in a special town hall broadcast live on Liberal.ca,” Ignatieff wrote in an 8 a.m. email to supporters, calling it an “historic occasion”. The Liberal Party ads developed since are dead ringers for Barack Obama ads. (See StephenTaylor.ca). Obama and the Canadian Liberal leader being on the same page of the hymn book may or may not have something to do with Ignatieff having been groomed for Canadian prime ministership by former Obama advisor Larry Summers. While the spotlight has remained on the Summers/ Obama ties, how many know that Ignatieff has even stronger ties to Samantha Power, wife of czar Cass Sunstein who had Obama’s ear for taking America to war in Libya? Ignatieff participated with Power at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on “Dafur: How To Respond to Genocide” with Lt. General Romeo Dallaire, Omer Ismail, John Prendergast, at an Oct. 18, 2004, JFK Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government. In fact, according to CP 24, Ignatieff is “good friends” with Samantha Power, a senior adviser to Obama during his presidential campaign, a member of his transition team and now a member of the National Security Council.

“Ignatieff met Power, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, journalist and academic, when he became director of the Carr Centre. Power was the centre’s founding executive director. “He also became friends with Power’s husband, Cass Sunstein, a Harvard professor and constitutional law expert who now heads up the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. “And he got to know Larry Summers, president of Harvard during Ignatieff’s stint at the Carr Center. Obama has appointed Summers as director of the National Economic Council.”

The similarities between Obama and Ignatieff get even better. Both men are products of Harvard University. In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School. He was elected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year, and president of the journal in his second year, in what writer Jack Cashill describes as his “single, most impressive accomplishment supervising the Law Review’s staff of 80 editors.” “After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.” (Wikipedia). Until he repatriated himself back to Canada where he was to one lead the first unsuccessful bid for a Liberal/NDP/Bloc Quebecois Coalition, Harvard Professor Michael Ignatieff had been director at the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy since 2000. More prolific in the art of writing than Obama, Ignatieff had been a contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine, writing lengthy articles on subjects including why the U.S. is in Iraq and whether the mistreatment of terrorism suspects is ever acceptable. (Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New York Observer, Dec. 4, 2005). Before parachuting in to save the Liberals from extinction, Ignatieff had been living outside of Canada for some 30 years, most of the time in the United Kingdom. The ineligibility issue continues to stalk Obama. Although Ignatieff was MIA from Canada for three decades, at least he was born in Canada. But his wife is not eligible to vote for her husband on May 2. According to a Liberal Party spokesman, wife Zsuzsanna Zsohar is not a Canadian citizen. Zsohar applied for Canadian citizenship as soon as she was eligible and is “waiting in queue like every other new Canadian for her application to be reviewed, “ Michael Liboiron said. It is not clear when she applied, and it can take a year according to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website. Zsohar, who married Ignatieff in 1999 in London, England, currently holds both British and Hungarian citizenship. “Manchurian” and “usurper” are two adjectives often ascribed to Obama. “Lofty” and “high falutin’ “ are how many average Canadians see Ignatieff, and there are those, too who hoped that the press pegging him as “Iggy” would bring him down a little closer to an altered ego state. Adoration at Iggy’s altar is coming strongest from the direction of NDP leader Jack Layton. But Ignatieff’s promised Coalition with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois could be Layton’s only hope to move up a notch on the Canadian political spectrum. Layton detractors delight in pointing out that he is only the leader of Canada’s 4th political party, long time trailing in voter popularity. Commenters on StephenTaylor.ca “a blog on Canadian politics” keep the dangers of a Canadian Government By Coalition alive. “Our democracy’s in jeopardy--and it’s not Prime Minister Harper’s (or George Bush’s fault)” commenter Observant wrote. “Did you see this Liberal-NDP strategy in your ridings? asked Observant. “In one riding with a NDP incumbent, I see a lot of NDP election signs but few Liberal signs. In another riding with a LIberal incumbent, I see few NDP signs. “The Liberals are stealing all the NDP socialist platform goodies now and Layton still keeps on attacking Harper while the Liberal polling moves up and NDP moves down. Why isn’t Layton attacking Ignatieff? Is this the “coalition” election strategy in action now?” Nor are Taylor blog commenters letting Coalition advocates get away with citing other countries being governed by coalitions. “When a coalition of losing parties will not accept the people’s choice to govern,” wrote Liz. J., “Coalitions in a democracy must include the party that won the most seats. The Coalition of Losers we have poised to strike again would not include one MP from the winning party. “These are the same twits who like to cite Britain’s Coalition Government which isn’t a coalition of losers, it is the leader of the winning party who is Prime Minister. The desperate for power Liberals are making a sham of our democratic system in their jealous lust for power.” Finally, knowing that Canadian patriots fear loss of sovereignty for Canada through forced membership in a European Union-patterned North American Union, leftwing groups like the Council of Canadians and the Development and Peace organization are out there passing rumours that Harper is pushing Canada along that route. But It is the leaders of the lib-left who foment for this kind of change. If Barack Obama can count on the election of Michael Ignatieff as Canadian Prime Minister on May 2nd, he’ll have a North American Union for Canada and the United States of America as the first step to a One World Government.