Obama Czar of the North Michael Ignatieff goes underground

Obama Czar of the North, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, has gone the same route as former Green Czar Van Jones: underground. No longer able to force an unwanted federal election on Canadians without New Democrat Party Leader Jack Layton who has defected to the Tories, Ignatieff was trying to undermine Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Wednesday Washington trip--even while the PM was still there.

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Flying into a pique, Ignatieff referred to Harper’s Washington meeting as an “amateur hour” that made Canadians “look like Boy Scouts”. The Boy Scout image carried out courageously by 2,000+ Canadian troops willingly backing up Americans in Afghanistan may be the consummate insult only in the mind of a politician whose ego sees him sharing the control of North America with a ruthless President Barack Hussein Obama. Underground is the best place for Ignatieff, known to the masses as Iggy, to advance his strategy as Obama Czar of the North. Held back from power by the likes of Jack Layton and a Canadian public who put survival in a shaky economy in front of his agenda to bring North America under Obama control, Ignatieff, whose forebears were Russian born, works, in effect, toward the formation of a North American Union. But while sovereignty may be up for grabs in Obama’s America, Sovereignty is a hallmark worth fighting for by Canadians. Robbing Canadians of their Sovereignty is something bound to evoke the fighting spirit of Canadians when it is comes from a parachuted back to Canada politician who spent almost three decades living outside the the country he wishes to lead, including five years teaching at Harvard University. Ignatieff boasts he has friends in high places in the USA. Some Canadian pundits claim he is being groomed as Czar of the North by no less than Larry Summers, economic adviser to Obama. Here’s the skinny on “The Boy Scouts” in the aftermath of Harper’s Wednesday visit to Washington. Canadian and American cheers from hockey fans are already drowning out Iggy’s “Amateur Hour”: “The NHL was the one thing the two leaders and the Congressmen appeared to have unequivocally agreed about--hockey teams on chartered planes can freely cross the border, a freedom threatened by one of the more curious restrictions of the U.S. subsidy program.” (Winnipeg Free Press, Sept. 18, 2009). Harper has broached Obama seven times on exempting Canada from the Buy America clause, which is creating both Canadian and American job loss. If an agreement over the “Buy American” deal remains unresolved, it won’t be for long. Obama’s Russian admirer Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today is calling on the U.S. to cancel Cold War-era restrictions on trade with Russia. Obama has, of course already folded to Russian pressure to scrap plans for a missile defense system in Europe. To exempt Russia but to leave Canada out in the cold on trade would write a new chapter in Canadian-American history that not even the brash Obama could survive.