A good strategy if the ballot question in 2012 is "Who likes Brian Mulroney more?"

So Michael Ignatieff thinks the way to hurt Stephen Harper is to blow kisses at a Conservative politician who left office with an approval rating of 21 percent and who is currently the subject of a commission of inquiry into his business dealings.

And people say 30 years out of the country has hurt Professor Ignatieff's connection with the Canadian zeitgeist.

Tisk, tisk.