By Linda Diebel — Deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff came to Holy Blossom Temple last night to apologize for having said as a leadership candidate that Israel had committed a “war crime.”

After being introduced as “a potential future prime minister of Canada,” Ignatieff described the 2006 episode as “the most painful experience of my short political career, and it was an error.”

He said he’s been reaching out to parts of the Jewish community to establish a dialogue since making the comment during an appearance on a Quebec talk show, Tout le monde en parle.

At last night’s lecture sponsored by the Canadian Coalition for Democracies, Ignatieff stressed he doesn’t believe recent “strange” media reports the Jewish community is going to vote en masse for the Conservatives in the next federal election. The Etobicoke-Lakeshore MP doesn’t believe there is a homogeneous Jewish community in Canada.

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