Canadian Elections: Another Failed Intervention
Submitted on May 29, 2011
By Derrick O'Keefe - Green Left Weekly
Having moved to solidify the support of business and foreign policy hawks, [Michael] Ignatieff then tacked to the left at the start of this spring’s election campaign, criticizing Harper’s wildly expensive no-bid purchase of F-35 fighter jets, and outlining a number of modest reforms...The result was that almost no one in Canada bought it, opting either for NDP leader Jack Layton’s warmed over social democracy...or Harper’s Conservatives...In the wreckage of his failed Canadian intervention, Ignatieff left a majority government for the Bush-like Harper.
