Mooh,

I never heard of Ignatieff before he was considered a potential liberal leader.

So, precisely what are the "pro-American" things that you say Iggy said about the US of A that has you concerned (as you noted)?

I recall he said that he admired and respect American institutions, as he lived there for five years. Is it that far off to respect the accomoplishments of the US of A in many fronts, especially since they are our neighbour, have been our military ally, our major trade partner, and have similar British roots and democracy? While I don't discount the differences between Canada and the USA, are there not good things to say about the US of A?

I suspect Trudeau may have been uncomfortable with George W Bush. However, I feel he could have had a good relationship with Obama, and possibly enjoyyed a good intellectual discussion with Ignatieff or Layton (as he did with Tommy Douglas). I do not see that there would be much common ground between Harper and Trudeau.

Here are a couple of Ignatieff quotes that come to mind:

""We have got to plant our standard firmly on the centre-left of Canadian politics.""

""None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Harper's vision of Canada.""