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February 21, 2011

Michael Ignatieff to meet Liberal elites on his Working Families Tour

Michael Ignatieff is currently on tour! He’s on the road going to the east coast of Canada and to parts of Quebec and Ontario. They’re calling it the Working Families Tour but most events occur between the hours of 8:30am and 3:30pm when families are working! I asked the Liberal Party about this and they replied that they are “going to where people work”. Fair enough, but let’s take a look at a stop in St. John’s Newfoundland:

And when he’s done at the high school meeting “working families”, he’s got another event that evening for Laurier Club members!

What is the Laurier Club you might ask? Let’s check the Liberal website for the answer:

With an annual donation of $1,100 ($550 for those 35 and under), made monthly or as a one-time gift, donors achieve Laurier Club status.

Working families by day, Liberal elites by night! All in a day for Michael Ignatieff on the Working Families Tour.

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  • Ontario girl

    To see Iggy at the Laurier Club you have to give a donation…Its a FUND RAISER….some working mans tour….whats that saying? Hands in your POCKETS…yeah, the Liberal way.

  • Enkidu2

    Working families (that aren’t actually working) by day, Liberal elites by night!

    fify

  • http://www.stephentaylor.ca Stephen Taylor

    You have to give the max $1100 donation!

  • Liz J

    Wonder if he got screeched, kissed the cod?

  • Liz J

    Who’s in charge of all these Iggy tours, they seem to be lacking something.

  • Anonymous

    Is Ignatieff and the Liberal party that tone deaf. Calling it a Working Families Tour and then entertaining their elite friends smells to high heavens.
    I note once again he is speaking to the school kids. I honestly believe he is terrified to meet ordinary Canadians who do not support the Liberal party.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps Ignatieff is trying to spend all the Liberal cash with all of these tours and bus trips. They won’t have much money left for a campaign. Maybe its his secret plot so he can get back to Harvard sooner than later. He doesn’t have to go that far. Canadians will be happy to give him a bus ticket back to Harvard after the next election.

  • DMorris

    “This event is open only to students and faculty at St. Kevin’s High School.” Or Laurier Club,or……

    Ignatieff is better off NOT meeting with ordinary Canadian working families,as they tend to see him as a phony poseur

  • batb

    Working Families’ Tour?

    What the … does that mean?

    Every family is a “working” family.

    The Liberal$ love to create division — you know, divide and conquer — and so they make a distinction between the kind of family mine was — “non-working,” because I stayed home to care for my husband’s and my children, even though I “worked” every day as a volunteer in my community for no pay, a Liberal no-no because I didn’t fill any of their coffers with the taxes I <i didn't pay — and “working families,” that is, two-income families which did fill their coffers.

    This is such a crock. People don’t know Iggy and the silver spoon he lugs around with him, because he’s not a familiar face in Canada because he chose to leave Canada years ago to make his fortune, or something like that. No number of bus tours is going to make a difference because even when Iggy lowers his standards to have a cup of Tim Horton’s coffee with the plebs, he’s awkward and everyone knows it’s just a photo-op. A few minutes later, he’s back inside his bus and, when night falls, he’s either staying with upper class friends or in a nice hotel suite.

    This bird won’t hunt, this yo-yo won’t swing, this harp won’t sing. This “working families” bus tour is a dud because it’s as phony as a three-dollar bill. Iggy doesn’t have the common touch — not his fault — and to pretend that he does every once in awhile — on these bus tours to get to know Canadians — is a desperate move on the part of the Liberal Backroom Boys.

  • batb

    correction: a Liberal no-no because I didn’t fill any of their coffers with the taxes I didn’tpay

  • batb

    Stephen, a question, O/T but related to your Tweet below.

    Do you have to have a blog to participate in the survey or can you just be a commenter on political blogs?

  • Ontario Girl

    He likes speaking to the kiddies(Brainwash?) …they don’t ask questions.

    Then he talks to LIBERALS only(can’t risk getting booed off the stage)….what a dummy…today is family day…..no one is at work so he’s not going to their jobs.
    He’s even tanking in the NFLN polls.

    What TOUR# is this one? 5? Time to give it up…Canadians just don’t like the guy.

  • http://canadiansense.blogspot.com/ Canadiansense

    How much are the Liberals paying to rent space and pay for A.V. at these public schools?

  • wilson

    Working Families’ Tour?
    What the … does that mean?

    Ask Jack Layton, it’s his theme for the Dippers doing all that stuff at ‘kitchen tables’

    Is this intentional, are we supposed to notice that Iffy’s Libs have morphed into Dippers,
    so the coalition appears more like 2 parties with one mind than a coup?

    Orange is the new Red ….. ignore the baby blue behind the curtain

  • wilson

    Working Families’ Tour?
    What the … does that mean?

    Ask Jack Layton, it’s his theme for the Dippers doing all that stuff at ‘kitchen tables’

    Is this intentional, are we supposed to notice that Iffy’s Libs have morphed into Dippers,
    so the coalition appears more like 2 parties with one mind than a coup?

    Orange is the new Red ….. ignore the baby blue behind the curtain

  • Liz J

    The best testament to the state of the LPC today came from former Chretien Cab Min John Manley on CBC’s Liberal show called P&P.
    The Host asked him if he would be part of the LPC today, (paraphrased), he answered NO.

  • Liz J

    We know we’re in trouble when all the media and the Liberals can talk about is election while plotting and wracking their poor dead brains to come up with just the right gotcha to put then in seats with power.
    They don’t give a rat’s butt about the country or the situation with the global economy or how damned fortunate we are to have the best PM in memory and the best qualified to steer us through rough waters.

    No wonder the silly meddling polls are coming out fast and furious, they’re in on it too. They figure PM Harper will fall for their high numbers and go headlong into an election. Well, the election will only happen if the opposition say so.

  • Mthielen

    Any headlines that iggy is demanding money so you can see and hear him.
    How many of those students are of voting age, and how many were forced to attend.

  • Mthielen

    Any idea of how many showed up at this event.

  • Liz J

    Well, we didn’t hear anything on that score so I’d guess they didn’t do too well or they’d be bragging.

  • DougM

    Iggy stays in front of Students because he’s used to it. Students know that if they piss off the Prof, they’re marks sink and they have to pay for another year of University.

  • Liz J

    Did Iggy sashay into the Laurier Club “fund raiser” to the tune of Rita MacNeil’s “I’m a Workin’ Man I am..” wearing gum shoes and coveralls ?

  • Gabby in QC

    23 comments here … does that equal the number of people who turn up at Ignatieff tour events?

    No, actually I’m wrong!
    http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1382701
    “In his fourth stop on what the Liberal Party has coined the nationwide “Working Families Tour,” Ignatieff said the Liberals want the government to roll back $6 billion in corporate tax cuts this year and next.
    The Liberal leader made the call repeatedly in front of roughly 60 people in what was a town hall style meeting. …”

  • http://canadiansense.blogspot.com/ Canadiansense

    He is repeating the strategy of Dion and trying to save the furniture tour. These ridings were close and will fall. The tiny crowds are not unusual. The balance sheet since he took over is the red flag the MSM keep ignoring. Rossi front end loaded the numbers and bailed on the sinking ship.
    Since 2004 the Liberals have not reduced the gap in donors or dollars. They are not competitive and are now victim to the large mass media buy pre writt.

  • Anonymous

    (you have to have a blog)