Breaking news...No vote for Iggy's wife

[Locutus]

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff won’t be counting on his wife’s vote on May 2 because she is not a Canadian citizen, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Zsuzzana Zsohar, Ignatieff’s Hungarian-born wife, is a landed immigrant who still hasn’t obtained citizenship in Canada, Liberal party officials confirmed on Wednesday.

Until she becomes a citizen, Zsohar cannot vote or hold some government jobs.

Liberal party spokesman Michel Liboiron said Zsohar is a landed immigrant “but applied for her Canadian citizenship as soon as she was eligible.”

She “is waiting in the queue like every other new Canadian for her application to be reviewed,” he said.

Zsohar, 64, holds Hungarian and British citizenships.

Ignatieff and Zsohar met in London, England, in 1995 while Ignatieff was doing a television series on ethnic nationalism for the BBC, where Zsohar was in charge of publicity.

The couple moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 2000 when Ignatieff became director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights.

They moved to Canada in 2005 and bought a Yorkville condo. By January 2006, he was MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore.

The previously married Ignatieff is a father of two grown children, Sophie, 24, and Theo, 27.

Zsohar’s lack of a citizenship surfaces as hard-hitting Conservative attack ads accuse Ignatieff of just “visting Canada” to run for prime minister after years of working abroad.


source: No vote for Iggy's wife | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Simular to my wife.

Difference is my wife answers all the Ipsos Reied telephone polls.

Some of those NDP numbers might be a bit soft. :)