Interview: Michael Ignatieff by John Macfarlane

Catherine Belyea is a broadcaster whose career in private radio and at the CBC has centred on music and the arts. This is the 13th year she has hosted readings and interviews at the IFOA.

Writer, historian and Liberal Party of Canada Leader Michael Ignatieff’s books include Man Booker Prize-nominated Scar Tissue, Lionel Gelber Prize-winning Blood and Belonging, and Governor General’s Literary Award-winning The Russian Album. Until 2000, he was a Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and since 2006 has been Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Toronto. True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada tells the story of his mother’s family, the Grants, who over three generations conducted a spirited argument about what Canada was and what it should be.