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Ignatieff lives in a 'void' after Mao comment
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On the day after the English leaders’ debate, Sun newspapers across Canada ran a front page photo of Michael Ignatieff with the headline: What the Mao? Ignatieff Channels Chairman.
The Quebecor chain – the largest circulation newspaper group in the country – linked Ignatieff to murderous Chinese dictator Mao Zedong because during the debate, Ignatieff said, “let some flowers bloom here,” calling for greater openness in Canadian democracy.
The Sun suggested Ignatieff was quoting Mao, who famously called for Chinese officials to “let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” before a brutal crackdown.
When he was informed of the Sun’s headline Saturday in a Halifax interview with The Chronicle Herald, Ignatieff laughed long and hard.
“I missed it,” he said, and laughed again.
“They shield,” he said, referring humorously to his campaign staff who decide what news he sees. “I live in a void.”
It was bad news for the Liberal campaign to have the negative and controversial Mao story in newspaper boxes across the country the day after his lacklustre debate performance, and Liberal campaign staff and journalists raised their eyebrows at the reporting, so it seems odd that Ignatieff didn’t know about it until Saturday.
Ignatieff found it very amusing.
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I don't know about anybody else, but I don't fancy the thought of a Prime Minister who lives in a void! I want a PM with his finger on the pulse of the nation!
p.s. Cast my ballot for NDP in the advance polls last night 
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