…come from Gilles Duceppe. Seriously – had this been the image MI put forward himself in the past, I would have been very tempted to support him in one of the past two leadership races:

The central targets for the Bloc are Mr. Ignatieff’s general demeanour, as well as any past opinion that can be used to paint him as a centralizing, anti-nationalist leader in the mould of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

“Michael Ignatieff says that Quebeckers can choose to be Quebeckers or Canadians, in any order. You can be what you want, he tells us, but you can be sure that his Liberal policies will be Canadian, period,” Mr. Duceppe said in the letter.

The new Liberal Leader, according to the Bloc, will thwart Quebec’s interests by proposing national education standards and a pan-Canadian energy policy, both of which would go against the province’s jurisdiction over education and natural resources.