Ang New York Times this week profiled Michael Ignatieff, the new leader of Canada’s Liberal Party. Hindi siya maaaring magkaroon ng charisma ng Barack Obama, ngunit siya ang have a Facebook grupo. At bukod sa,

Although the clauses “for a Canadian” or, ngayon, “for a politician” are often attached, people almost always describe Mr. Ignatieff as glamorous. Maclean ng tindahan sabay pinangalanan siya Canada "Sexiest na tserebral Man."

Ignatieff, na ipinanganak sa Toronto, ay itinuro sa Harvard, hosted programs for the BBC, penned essays para sa Bagong Yorker, and written 16 mga libro. And for the past several years, he’s been back in Canada.

Mr. 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. At kung siya ay nababato, ay hindi ito para sa mahaba. Huling Disyembre, after a tumultuous fortnight of machinations in parliament, Mr. 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, na siya maging the next prime minister of Canada.

Nang kawili-wili, 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, kahit na…

And for a much more detailed take on the man who would be prime minister, tingnan ang Globe at Mail feature.