Letters: Memo to Ignatieff — Our Canada doesn’t include letting children freeze to death
A second excerpt from Michael Ignatieff’s book, True Patriot Love, riled some readers on Friday. In particular, the passage where he talked about the father who took his small girls into a freezing winter night, then abandoned them in a drunken stupor. That father is now serving a three-year jail term for this horrendous criminal action. But what angered Post readers is that Ignatieff said this episode “is a story about us.” Here are two reactions to this observation.
Michael Ignatieff disgraces the memory of Kaydance and Santana Pauchay by describing their deaths on the Yellow Quill reservation as the “tragic” result of their father’s quest to “take the sick little girls to his parents.” Mr. Ignatieff completely ignores the responsibility of the father of his daughters’ deaths.
He then disgraces Canadians by claiming “it is a story about us.” This is true only in so far as we cry out at the suffering and deaths of two of our society’s smallest ones. It is patentl