Michael Grant Ignatieff Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Michael Grant Ignatieff, Template:Post-nominals (/???næti.?f/; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Toronto.While living in the United Kingdom from 1978 to 2000, Ignatieff became well known as a television and radio broadcaster and as an editorial columnist for The Observer. His documentary series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on BBC in 1993, and won a Canadian Gemini Award. His book of the same name, based on the series, won the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues and the University of Toronto's Lionel Gelber Prize. His memoir, The Russian Album, won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and the British Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize in 1988. His novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures, entitled The Rights Revolution, which was released in print later that year.In the 2006 federal election, Ignatieff was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Etobicoke—Lakeshore. That same year, he ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party, ultimately losing to Stéphane Dion. He served as the party's deputy leader under Dion. After Dion's resignation in the wake of the 2008 election, Ignatieff served as interim leader from November 2008 until he was elected leader at the party's May 2009 convention. In the 2011 federal election, Ignatieff lost his own seat in the Liberal Party's worst showing in its history. Winning only 34 seats, the party placed a distant third behind the Conservatives and NDP, and thus lost its position as the Official Opposition. On May 3, 2011, Ignatieff announced that he would resign as leader of the Liberal Party, pending the selection of an interim leader, which became effective May 25, 2011.Following his electoral defeat, Ignatieff taught at the University of Toronto. In 2013, he returned to the Harvard Kennedy School part-time, splitting his time between Harvard and Toronto. On July 1, 2014, he returned to Harvard full time. He continues to publish articles and essays on international affairs as well as Canadian politics.
China now is what the Soviet system was to the human rights movement in the Cold War: its largest strategic challenge, the one regime with global reach that believes it can deny full civil and political rights in perpetuity and permanently deny its citizens access to the Internet and the information revolution. The unanswered question and unmet challenge for the contemporary human rights movement is whether the example of activists like Cheng Guangcheng will be able to do one day in China what Scharansky and his fellow human rights activists did to the Soviet system.
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The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.
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The challenges that lie ahead for human rights are to refuse to make everything a human rights issue and to concentrate on those central concerns of discrimination, injustice, torture and tyranny that are the movement's special cause.
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The two states with the biggest strategic capacity to do harm to freedom in the world are Russia and China. Both are something new in the annals of political science: single party tyrannies busy perfecting crony capitalism, regimes built on corruption and privilege, where only growth keeps discontent at bay and where a middle class with precarious economic freedom chafes under restrictions to its civil and political rights.
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What I fear is what I think we've got: a hollowed-out democracy in which solitary politicians hurl abuse at each other in an empty chamber, and power accrues ever more steadily to the Prime Minister, to the Supreme Court, to the bureaucracy and to the press. And all of them regard those elected to represent the people with contempt and derision.
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An enemy is a rival who has to be destroyed. An adversary is an opponent you want to defeat, but who you may later need as an ally. But if the House votes are along straight party lines and you have a majority, you have no incentive to treat your adversaries as anything but enemies.
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People forget that members of Parliament are legislators. They're not comedians. They're there to vote on stuff. But the Prime Minister's capacity to dictate House business, put together omnibus bills and ram them through, while imposing discipline, has concentrated executive power at the expense of the legislature.
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[on airport security] If you are in my business, and I have people touching my private parts all day long, all I have to say is, 'That's what you have to do to keep us safe'.
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Received an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Toronto's Trinity College. Continued his studies at the University of Oxford, and received a PhD in History at Harvard University.
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Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (December 2008 - May 2011).
Writer
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Year
Status
Character
Scar Tissue
2002
TV Movie novel
Onegin
1999
screenplay
Nineteen Nineteen
1985
Thanks
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Year
Status
Character
The Making of a Leader (1919-1968)
1994
TV Movie documentary special thanks
Father and Son
1992
Documentary special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
2013
TV Series
Himself
The Hour
2010-2013
TV Series
Himself
Tout le monde en parle
2006
TV Series
Himself
Charlie Rose
2000-2005
TV Series
Himself - Guest
60 Minutes
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself - Professor, Harvard (segment "Nation Building")
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