"Prominent Journalist Chrystia Freeland in Surprise Canadian Political Bid"

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3. I'm just going by your OP, nothing more.

I know people who thought fine about Ignatieff, who has a similar biography. I mean people who personally knew him (he was a prof, many people took his courses) and could say after personal experience that he was very smart, very fair, and a good person. I believe them - because there's no evidence better than a trusted friend giving an opinion after personal experience. But, granting all that as true, Ignatieff = Harper, and IMO we haven't a worse gov't under the slavish tool Harper than we'd have under Ignatieff. In fact, I think it's better to have gotten rid of Ignatieff from the "liberal left", than to have the "liberal left" led by someone like him - then, after all that damage done, having to disentangle what it means to be "liberal" and "left" and "progressive" from all the semantic horrorshow.