Michael Ignatieff
I went to the Friday night's debate on peace building.
Unfortunately Lloyd Axworthy didn't show up due to some urgent meeting in Peru, apparently.
Ignatieff started his speech in French, regarding the importance of national unity in Canada. That sounded very much like a leadership speech. I think it is obvious that he will be running.
He is a great speaker in general. He has a good sense of humor and in general I could say he is charismatic.
In the Q&A period I asked him about Iran's nuclear program, since he classified conflict prevention part of peace building.
His answer was that he thinks Iran has every right to a nuclear program, but has to agree to certain conditions regarding respecting the international community and neighboring governments! He also mentioned a nuclear fuel cycle program between Canada and Iran, which except for being a long shot, sounds very interesting.
posted by The City Gal @ Sunday, February 05, 2006
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2 Comments:
Thanks inquisitor.
Since this session was organized as part of a conference, I doubt that Axworthy was unavailable on purpose.
You should have stayed for the very last question which came from an 8 year old Afghani girl. She questioned him on whether or not this peace keeping mission was worth all the children killed.
It was a breath-taking!
Many thanks...I am with you.
Did you get the chance to read The Kite Runner?
I think you would love that book.
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