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  • Ignatieff spurns, embraces paternity of Quebec nation

    11/23/2006 12:47:31 PM PST · by Clive · 23 replies · 595+ views
    Canadian Press via Sun Media ^ | 2006-11-23 | Bruce Cheadle
    OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff's on-again, off-again ownership of the Quebec-as-nation push is definitely on again. Ignatieff, the Liberal MP with the impressive academic credentials, has been alternately embracing and distancing himself from the initiative with dizzying regularity. Early Wednesday afternoon in a round-table discussion with The Canadian Press, Ignatieff was emphatic that a controversial internal Liberal party resolution to recognize Quebec as a nation was not his idea. "Just so it's clear, for the 20th time, the (Quebec) resolution was not initiated by the Ignatieff camp," he said. "It was initiated by people who support a...