'An Age of Bad Faith'

Michael Ignatieff M.P. for Etobicoke-Lakeshore is a world-renowned writer, scholar, and journalist. He has earned a reputation as a leading expert on human rights, democracy, security, and international affairs. Born and raised in Toronto, Michael has been a life-long Liberal. During the 1965 election, he knocked on doors for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, and in 1968 he attended the Liberal Leadership Convention as a delegate for Pierre Trudeau, later serving as a national youth organizer on the campaign that would elect Trudeau as Prime Minister.  Michael studied at the University of Toronto and at Oxford University, before completing a PhD at Harvard. Soon after, he accepted his first teaching appointment at the University of British Columbia the start of a distinguished teaching career around the world. In 2000, Michael accepted a position as Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. Michael has also spent considerable time working as a journalist and political commentator, recognized at home as one of Canadas most celebrated writers. Beginning as a staff writer for the Globe and Mail, he would later become a commentator, critic and broadcaster for TVO, the CBC and the BBC. He has written 16 fiction and non-fiction books which have been translated into 12 languages, and won numerous awards, both at home and internationally. For his written works, distinguished teaching career and his contribution to public discourse, Michael has received seven honourary degrees. Stemming from his dramatic first-hand accounts of countries struggling with conflict, Michael's expertise in human rights, security, and foreign affairs has made him a valued advisor to a number of national governments, and a respected contributor to prominent international commissions and working groups. Michael has written extensively about the challenges Canada faces in the 21st Century. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures on CBC Radio, entitled The Rights Revolution. In his keynote address to the Liberal Party of Canadas Biennial Policy Convention in March 2005, Michael stressed the importance of remaining true to the cherished Liberal values of generosity, unity, sovereignty, justice, and the courage to choose, the will to govern. In January, 2006, Michael Ignatieff was elected Member of Parliament for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Michael is married to Zsuzsanna Zsohar, and has two children, Theo and Sophie.

Contrasts of Béla Bartók by Janine Jansen (violin), Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer (clarinet), Jan Gruithuyzen (violin)