“Iggy’s morally contemptible words” – Mark Steyn” in Maclean’s May 11th issue.

It seems that Maclean’s has chosen this issue to gang up on poor Iggy –see Allan Fotheringham (p.14) and Mark “off the wall” Steyn (p.60). While Fotheringham makes some valid points about Ingnatieff’s latest book; Mr. Steyn goes off on a tirade about the tangential subject of a drunken aborigine by the name of Pauchay who, in a drunken stupor, left his child to freeze to death in the snow. Mr. Ignatieff’s “prose style” in commenting on this sad story might be unfortunate, but the appellations “contemptible” and “poseur” is nothing but bombastic vituperation. Mr. Ignatieff could be accused of being stiff, formal or even awkward; but indifferent or a “poseur” he is not.

I know Maclean’s are “broadminded” and try to embrace the breadth and length of the political and social stratum, witness your various critical comments on Stephen Harper; but Steyn has transgressed the limits of tolerance with his boorish rant.


PS. I would have sent a copy of this letter to Mr. Steyn, but his e-mail address does not –for good reason I’m sure –appear in your magazine.