Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal star candidate who has come under fire for his comments about Ukrainians, faced a number of rowdy critics Wednesday night at his Toronto riding's nomination meeting.
A number of protesters booed and interrupted the Harvard professor as he spoke two days after he was acclaimed in Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Half the people in the room walked out yelling "shame."
Some members of the local riding association have cried foul over an attempt by the Liberal party to parachute a so-called "star candidate" into the riding.
They've also charged that Ignatieff has made disparaging comments about Ukrainians in his book Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, an explosive allegation in a riding where people of Ukrainian descent make up a significant number of voters.
"Isn't nationalism just an exercise in kitsch...?" Ignatieff writes in the book. "Ukrainians now have a state, but are they really a nation?"
But Ignatieff, 58, said the passages have been taken out of context.
The cartoon which would have run today, but instead was spiked
