Canadian Politics meets Dune!

[pyat]

The presumed new leader of the Liberal party is Micheal Ignatieff, a Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford professor, documentary maker, egghead, and writer of novels with hot sex scenes. Indeed, he was once selected as "Canada's Sexiest Intellectual."

He is also the great-grandson of Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev, the feared Tsarist spy, diplomat, adventurer and (allegedly) assassin. He was the author of the anti-Semitic "May Laws". Count Ignatiev is also the villain of Flashman in the Great Game, which I just finished reading a couple of weeks ago!


One imagines a situation where mild-mannered Mike is sworn in as the Prime Minister... only to be awaken one night by a strident whisper, somewhere deep in his soul...

Comments

[j-cat.livejournal.com]

HAH! Children of Dune was great.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I kind of wish Alia was played by the original one... (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001860/)

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

"And I will be the implement of the Liberal Party's demise!"

[pyat.livejournal.com]

She's somewhat more exotic, yes. And her red hair is a nice tie to the Harkonnen blood.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

And then Justin Trudeau will save us, and declare himself God Emperor of... er.... Snow!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I still want an RPG based on it.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I would ever have characterized Alia as "mild mannered", actually... she did poison her grandfather with a horrible toxin when she was a toddler, after all, and revel in the bloody revolution perpetrated upon the known universe by her elder brother...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

In Dune, people poison people as a sort of friendly gesture. Shows "Hey, I'm thinking of you, friend!"

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHA. You should have heard Global whitewash Count Ignatiev tonight.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

He can't stand in Parliament, he's a still a minor!

(At least by Parliamentary standards).

[thebitterguy]

I can't wait until we can have tea together!

Canada's Ignatieff

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the bio, which the U.S. papers are nevvvvver going to cover.

Re: Canada's Ignatieff

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Also:

Radioactive Mutant Exploding Hamsters

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Thank you. :)