Ignatieff speaks to lawyers

Michael Ignatieff seems to have given up sleep.

He seems to be everywhere.

But this is not the frantic wandering of a lost politician looking for support at everyone's Mutual Benefit Supporters Breakfast.

Every time Michael appears he speaks with such confidence and genuine knowledge that those he speaks to leave as supporters. I saw Michael today speaking to a group of lawyers (see the not so good picture with this post).

Apart from myself virtually everyone at the meeting was a high end large law firm business lawyer. This is a group that suffers fools badly and looks closely at political speeches. It is a group that one might think should lean towards Harper.

But no matter what they may have felt going in, after hearing Michael the group was as one supporting him and the Liberal Party. Sensible considered thoughts on the budget, care to point out the need to avoid a structural deficit and recognition that we need to build more bridges (figurative and literal) to the United States moved the group's support.

But Michael is not merely a businessperson's politician. He always emphasises the need to bring those outside, the homeless, the under employed, the disabled, the lost souls of Canada, into the heart of Canadian life. A Liberal is not a liberal unless they remember those in need.

I guess I sound like a fan. I am.