After losing the Liberal leadership race, Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff are excited to get back into the ring as they vie to be the Eaton Centre’s next Santa Claus. Rae won his last middleweight championship in 1989, and weighs in at 205 pounds, ego included. Of his contender, he said, “And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.”
Ignatieff, whose only sparring partners are his academic buddies during martini nights on College Street, expects that he will get the same reaction during the match that Rae gave him at the Convention this weekend. “He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle,” Ignatieff sniffed. May the best Santa win.
