- The Media sees Ignatieff as belonging to the right-wing of the Liberal Party.[1]
- The unofficial Liberal Party tradition was to alternate between francophone and anglophone leaders.
- "In fact, if this fledgling race has an establishment candidate, a centre-right candidate, it would appear (in the absence of John Manley and Frank McKenna) to be Ignatieff." said Susan Riley, Ottawa Citizen Published: Monday, April 17, 2006 [2]