Who Does Iggy Think He Is?

AUDIO: Is Michael Ignatieff a victim of tall poppy syndrome?

Four years before the passage of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Alice Munro published her fourth novel, Who Do You Think You Are?, which raised the question of Canada’s distrust of the exceptional. In this audio essay, Michael Lista suggests that in some ways, this distrust is alive and well, and quite possibly the bane of Michael Ignatieff’s political career.