The Literary Review of Canada excerpts Jack Layton’s foreword to a new book about Charles Taylor, George Grant and CB Macpherson.
Robert L. Fraser is unimpressed with True Patriot Love.
The son of one famed family, and keen student of Canada himself, reviews the work of another.
Robert Fulford is unimpressed.
Rounding out his weekend, Michael Ignatieff talks to CBC.ca and CBC Radio 1. The latter, as a commenter here noted earlier, is particularly worth reviewing.
Michael Valpy writes nearly 4,400 words for the Saturday Globe on Michael Ignatieff and True Patriot Love.
The Ottawa Citizen reviews Michael Ignatieff’s True Patriot Love.
Michael Ignatieff, speaking to a town hall in Halifax, Jan. 8. I have the unique distinction of being probably the only Canadian in the world who has two members of his family who both wrote biographies of Nova Scotia’s greatest man, Joe Howe. How about that? It’s a true story. My great grandfather wrote a biography of Joe Howe, whose statue is maybe 400 yards away. And my grandfather wrote a biography. I don’t know how they ended up doing that, but they did. So Joe Howe’s been a hero all my life. And Joe Howe said a great thing, which we should remember and should be above the doors of Parliament. “The only questions I ask myself are: What is right? What is just? And what is for the public good?” And that’s what we have to talk about this afternoon.