Must be more of that “new internationalism” we keep hearing about.

Toronto Sun:

[Canadian Liberal Party leader, and likely prime-ministerial candidate Michael] Ignatieff now claims he has never voted in a foreign country, but quotations from his past suggest he voted Labour in Britain and would vote Democrat in the U.S.

“I am an American Democrat.  I will vote for Kerry in November,” Ignatieff told The Glasgow Herald in 2004.

They were running so short of dead people that they had to recruit foreigners...?

Ignatieff, a professor at Harvard at the time, was defending his record as a human rights advocate against charges that he had become a neo-conservative who backed then-president George W. Bush...

Despite the statement that he would vote for Kerry, Ignatieff now says he has never voted outside of Canada.

Asked to clarify why Ignatieff once said he would vote for Kerry and why he says now that he has never voted outside of Canada, Ignatieff's spokesman dodged the questions...

British law allows citizens of Commonwealth nations living in Britain to cast ballots. Residents aren't automatically registered to vote and are required to sign up to get their name on the voters list.  According to online records, Ignatieff was registered to vote in Britain as recently as 2002.

Canada, Britain, the United States... Dang, I always get those countries confused!  Must be the football.

HT:  Kate

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