The most exciting thing about Micheal Ignatieff's talk Monday at Dal was that I now appear on the home page of the Liberal Party of Canada (http://www.liberal.ca/). I'm farthest to the right and closest to the bottom (in the picture).
Despite the ridiculous claims from the Toronto star that "[t]he questions were remarkably good" the questions were unremarkable softballs.
The tone for the whole thing was pretty clearly set when the first question was asked. It regarded Mr Ignatieff's feelings on prorogation and was asked by the fellow organizing the anti-prorogation rally here in Halifax. Whew as the liberal website says that's "tough".
The rest of the day was a rehash of Liberal pseudo policy, which to be fair is an entirely valid amount of policy for the Opposition to put forward when no election has been called. It does make for boringly repetitious stuff to report on though.
Of course Liberal sympathy can be expected from the University crowd, Ignatieff played into this a bit with reiterated promises to prioritize education and the move towards a knowledge based economy. Much more willing to get specific on the attack (again as he should be) he drew attention to Conservative government cuts to the Canadian Council on Learning, which quietly occurred just before the new year.
In any case non-event as may be expected.
A very self deprecating but jovial style speaker Mr Ignatieff wasn't really put to the test here.
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