A New York Times this week profiled Michael Ignatieff, the new leader of Canada’s Liberal Party. Ele pode não ter o carisma de Barack Obama, mas ele não have a Facebook grupo. E, além disso,

Although the clauses “for a Canadian” or, agora, “for a politician” are often attached, people almost always describe Mr. Ignatieff as glamorous. Maclean revista uma vez que o nomeou Do Canadá "Sexiest Man Cerebral."

Ignatieff, que nasceu em Toronto, lecionou em Harvard, hosted programs for the BBC, ensaios para a alojados New Yorker, and written 16 livros. And for the past several years, he’s been back in Canada.

Sr.. Ignatieff shocked friends and colleagues three years ago by chucking the life of the mind for the hurly-burly of politics and returning, after a long exile, to his native country to win a seat in Parliament. E se ele estava entediado, não foi por muito tempo. Em dezembro passado, after a tumultuous fortnight of machinations in parliament, Sr.. Ignatieff, 61, became the leader of the opposition Liberal Party, which has been called Canada’s “natural ruling party” and has been in power for much of the last century.

Should his party win control of the government, something it came close to doing last week and still hopes to in the coming months, ele se tornaria the next prime minister of Canada.

Curiosamente, MacClean’s writer John Geddes questioned the source of the “Sexiest Cerebral Man” quote, blogging in “Who called Ignatieff our ‘Sexiest Cerebral Man’?” that the magazine “…can’t find any electronic record of having described him in those three words.” It sounds clever, embora…

And for a much more detailed take on the man who would be prime minister, confira este Globe and Mail feature.