Michael Ignatieff certainly wants to offer himself as a clear alternative to Stephen Harper, with Canada offered fully supine to our betters:

Liberal leadership contender Michael Ignatieff blasted Stephen Harper Thursday, criticizing the prime minister for engaging in "megaphone diplomacy" on his foreign policy stance toward China

"Mr. Harper, I think, believes you can go to one of the greatest civilizations on earth, a superpower of the 21st century and give them a little lecture on human rights," Ignatieff told CBC News.

[...]  Ignatieff said the best way for Canada to raise those concerns is to get in a room with the Chinese president and say "here are the files, here are the issues where we have specific disagreements with you; how can we work to get these things resolved?"

[...] "But the right way to do that is to lower the megaphone, lower the volume, get into rooms, stand up for our values quietly."

Sad. If Canada was only 10,000 people living in sod huts, I'd still consider ourselves a superior civilization to one that chops up its citizens to sell for spare parts. I'm not a progressive though.