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  Ignatieff, Michael
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AffiliationLiberal  
  2011-00-00  
 
NameMichael Ignatieff
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Toronto, Ontario , Canada
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Born May 12, 1947 (76 years)
ContributorMonsieur
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Apr 02, 2011 09:30pm
Tags Russian - Married - Russian Orthodox - Straight -
InfoMichael Grant Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff, M.P., B.A., M.A., Ph.D, prominent Canadian author and academic, was first elected in 2006 as the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Lakeshore. Mr. Ignatieff is the Associate Critic for Human Resources and Skills.

Son of a distinguished diplomat George Ignatieff, Mr. Ignatieff is the former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights and Policy at Harvard University. He is one of the most influential voices in the global debate on human rights, as well as the distinguished author of an acclaimed biography of British academic Sir Isaiah Berlin and such award-winning works as The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror.

Mr. Ignatieff received a degree in History at the University of Toronto and a doctorate at Harvard University. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and has held teaching posts at Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, the University of California, the University of London and the London School of Economics.

Mr. Ignatieff has written extensively about the challenges Canada faces in the 21st Century and the urgency of making Canada’s voice strong and credible on the international stage. In his keynote address to the Liberal Party of Canada’s Biennial Policy Convention in March 2005, Mr. Ignatieff stressed the importance of remaining true to our cherished Liberal values – “generosity, unity, sovereignty, justice, and the courage to choose, the will to govern.”

He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Heinemann Award, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. Mr. Ignatieff has also been a regular broadcaster and critic on television and radio.

In 1997, Maclean's magazine named Ignatieff in its "Top 10 Canadian Who's Who." In 2003 Maclean's also named him Canada's "Sexiest Cerebral Man" because of "his made-for-TV looks and effortless eloquence."


JOB APPROVAL POLLS
DateFirmApproveDisapproveDon't Know
04/21/2010-04/27/2010 Ekos Research Associates 20.00% ( 30.0) 51.00% ( 23.0) 29.00% ( 8.0)
04/08/2009-04/13/2009 Ekos Research Associates 50.00% ( 0.0) 28.00% ( 0.0) 21.00% ( 0.0)

BOOKS
Title Purchase Contributor
True Patriot Love  Purchase Monsieur 
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror  Purchase RMF 

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NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
May 03, 2011 09:00am Announcement Ignatieff resigns after Liberal defeat  Article Monsieur 
Jul 13, 2010 08:00pm General Ignatieff's bus breaks down  Article Monsieur 
Nov 22, 2009 04:00pm Strategy Ignatieff's new chief of staff aims to turn around image  Article Monsieur 
Sep 24, 2009 10:00am Opinion Why Ignatieff should start imitating Trudeau   Article Monsieur 
Feb 21, 2009 10:20am General Ignatieff turns on the charm: is he the next Trudeau?  Article Monsieur 
Dec 15, 2008 03:00pm Opinion Canada’s Prince of Darkness Assumes Leadership of the Liberal Party  Article Craverguy 

DISCUSSION
Importance? 7.33330 Average

FAMILY
Wife Zsuzsanna Zsohar 00, 1999-
Father George Ignatieff 1913-1989
Grandfather Pavel Ignatyev 1870-1945
Great-Grandfather Nikolay Ignatyev 1832-1908

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RACES
  05/02/2011 ON Parliament - Etobicoke—Lakeshore Lost 35.07% (-5.35%)
  05/02/2011 CAN Prime Minister Lost 11.04% (-42.86%)
  05/02/2011 CAN Leader of the Opposition Lost 23.94% (-48.59%)
  05/04/2009 Leadership Race - Liberal Party Won 97.08% (+94.17%)
  12/10/2008 Leader - Liberal Party Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  12/10/2008 CAN Leader of the Opposition Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  10/14/2008 ON Parliament - Etobicoke—Lakeshore Won 46.13% (+11.26%)
  12/02/2006 Leadership Race - Liberal Party Lost 27.49% (-5.77%)
  01/23/2006 ON Parliament - Etobicoke—Lakeshore Won 43.63% (+8.47%)
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