One Of The Biggest Divides In Canada

In Academic Life, False Ideas Are Merely False And Useless Ones Can Be Fun To Play With. In Political Life, False Ideas Can Ruin The Lives Of Millions And Useless Ones Can Waste Precious Resources. An Intellectual's Responsibility For His Ideas Is To Follow Their Consequences Wherever They May Lead. A Politician's Responsibility Is To Master Those Consequences And Prevent Them From Doing Harm. Michael Ignatieff, A Former Professor At Harvard And Contributing Writer For The Magazine, Is A Member Of Canada's Parliament And Deputy Leader Of The Liberal Party.

The Liberal Party Of Canada Has No Monopoly On Public Service, We Have No Monopoly On Virtue, And We Have No Monopoly On Wisdom.

We Must Not Lose Sight Of The Fundamental Issue Of Policy Which Is That People Who Come To The Country On Visa Status Must Never Be Abused.

The Politics Of Personal Destruction, The Politics Of Division, The Politics Of Fear, It's All There. It Helps You To Define The Politics Of Moderation - The Politics Of Democratic Respect, The Politics Of Hope - More Clearly.

To Defeat Evil, We May Have To Traffic In Evils: Indefinite Detention Of Suspects, Coercive Interrogations, Targeted Assassinations, Even Pre-emptive War.