Speaking recently during the ongoing federal election, Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff called on Canadians to "rise up".
It's a statement designed to spark a revolutionary zeal around the 2011 federal
The very day -- the very day -- Ignatieff made the statement, campaign signs for a key Edmonton-area Conservative candidate were vandalized.
In what can only be described as a fundamentally juvenile act, profanities were spray-painted on signs for Ryan Hastman, the Conservative Party's candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona.
The Hastman campaign has not fingered any of the competing campaigns in Edmonton-Strathcona as responsible for the vandalism. But as campaign spokesman Paul Bunner has pointed out, the vandalism very much is a personal statement: a statement that Hastman's opponents seem to have little of substance to say about his candidacy, and so are instead focused on attacking him personally.
That's the kind of "revolution" Michael Ignatieff seems to imagine himself riding to power. Unforunately for Ignatieff, it will be televised.
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