In today's Globe & Mail, baby!
Re: Andrew Stark's "Embracing The Nation in Quebec" (17 July)
Far removed from the spectres of political ambiguity and opportunism that haunt his colleagues, Michael Ignatieff has embraced the notion that Quebec constitutes a civic nation, one that has the full capacity to engage itself in the workings of the larger framework of Canadian society.
It is patently illogical to suggest, as Andrew Stark has done, that someone whose life's work has sought to illuminate the threat to stability, the danger to life and the pathway to atrocity that has so often accompanied adherence to ethnic nationalism would fail to make this distinction.
Mr. Stark would do well to refresh his bibliography before making such a claim.
juicynewf
Montreal, QC
Far removed from the spectres of political ambiguity and opportunism that haunt his colleagues, Michael Ignatieff has embraced the notion that Quebec constitutes a civic nation, one that has the full capacity to engage itself in the workings of the larger framework of Canadian society.
It is patently illogical to suggest, as Andrew Stark has done, that someone whose life's work has sought to illuminate the threat to stability, the danger to life and the pathway to atrocity that has so often accompanied adherence to ethnic nationalism would fail to make this distinction.
Mr. Stark would do well to refresh his bibliography before making such a claim.
juicynewf
Montreal, QC