Ignatieff slams Harper for 'failure to unite Canada'

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Michael Ignatieff took direct aim at Prime Minister Stephen Harper, attacking his track record on national unity, as he accepted the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, unopposed, at a convention in Vancouver on Saturday.

"I want to speak directly to Stephen Harper," he told a crowd of about 3,000 cheering Liberals.

"For three years you have played province against province, group against group, region against region and individual against individual. When your power was threatened last November, you unleashed a national unity crisis and you saved yourself only by sending Parliament home.

"Mr. Harper, you don't understand Canada … that a prime minister is there to unite a country, not divide it…. You are failing to do your duty," he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/02/liberal-convention.html


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[HeresyLives]

1. Unite it??

Harper is deliberately trying to divide it!!

[CHIMO]

2. And So

Is the system. It is divide and conquer.

Maybe some party will come about to lead the others.

[HeresyLives]

3. Hasn't been before now.

But yes, a new party would be a good idea.

It's just a very hard thing to get up and running.

[CHIMO]

4. It Used

To be that the NDP were interested in policy! They drove the politics in Canada!

[HeresyLives]

5. Years ago. They are out of date now.

Just as out of date as the other two parties.

[CHIMO]

6. Yes

That seems to be the case.

There only seems to be one party now that represents their people,

[HeresyLives]

7. And who would that be?

she asked, dryly.