No One Makes a Monkey Outta Me
I really appreciate Iggy’s tendency to… go back on things. Seriously, I think it’s a valuable characteristic and I’d not apply the charming “flip-flop” term to it because it always strikes me as genuine. Okay, yeah,most of us were troubled with his stance on Iraq, but listening to him re-think it and admit he was wrong was refreshing. MI is so forward thinking. The past is in the past.
That said, the story of Beryl Wajsman pleases me for very different reasons.
I really like that Iggy is “wooing” back into the party someone Paul Martin “banned for life” because it fits nicely with his forward thinking persona, but it’s more extreme. Ha. Because he’s sort of retracting on behalf of the whole Liberal party, past and present. And that’s just funny.
Furthermore:
Lapierre himself was at Montreal’s city hall in January while Wajsman was accepting the Martin Luther King Legacy Award for community service work. Wajsman saw him, cursed and proceeded with his acceptance speech. Lapierre sat and listened, clapped politely and quickly left the room before the applause was over.
That is funny. I could not be more serious when I declare that I want this man - the one that curses and proceeds with his speech - to be back, and active, in the Liberal party. So way to go Iggy. God bless.
Also, I was reading around wiki about Lapierre and came across this anecdote from 1990 (when I was eight and therefore have no memory of, but oh man would’ve had a field day with):
Lapierre’s group led a stir at the 1990 Liberal Leadership Convention in Calgary when Jean Chrétien embraced Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador Clyde Wells hours after the latter had helped kill the Meech Lake Accord. Lapierre’s followers wore black armbands and yelled “Vendu!” (sell out!) at Jean Chrétien.
Kind of a troublemaker and I don’t really like him but damn, maybe we can woo him back too, just for a minute?
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