The Canadian question

Michael Ignatieff talks to the Sun.

"I didn’t write the book as a defensive response to anticipated attack. I started this thing long before I was even in politics -- and I would have finished it whatever happened -- but there’s no doubt that it has the consequence of being a response to that.

"I’ve never seen a contradiction between loving your country and being outside it ... sometimes you actually have to get out of your country to see it for what it is."

The Star, meanwhile, spends a few days with Ignatieff in Southwestern Ontario and reports back.