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It's summer, barbecue season in Canada. It's the summer of 2006, and Canada has a new (albeit minority) Conservative government in power. It's a summer of hanging on to the news as it comes through the wires, on the printed page, our television sets, our radios. For some in Canada's ethnic communities it's a time of high anxiety, of anger, of remorse, of determination, of hope. For the new government of Canada it was high time to take a stand on moral principles, and for heaven's sake, this new, minority government did just that. Hail and hallelujah! Hope I spelled that right.For far too long the Liberal-led government of Canada hemmed and hawed, and made much of being an honest broker, held its stance of neutrality close to its bosom and declared it was a champion of truth and justice. Truth was, it was none of that. It was and behaved like a hypocritical holier-than-thou, politically-correct entity posing as the voice of Canadians. Better correct that statement: it was indeed, espousing a point of view of a good many Canadians, but certainly not all. Not me, chums. Not that I ever voted Liberal. Never voted Conservative either, for that matter.
But I truly do not think that I will ever vote for the party that bills itself as a fighter for social justice, ever again, despite a lifelong proclivity to do just that. Mine eyes have seen the coming of the justice of the Conservatives and they will never blink orange again. Under the successive Liberal governments and the impetus of orientalists at the Department of Foreign Affairs Canada invariably voted with annual UN resolutions condemning Israel as racist and warlike, remaining prudently silent when it came to atrocities committed against Israel by its Arab neighbours and the terrorists they harboured among them.
Canada, through CIDA, generously gave taxpayers' money to fund armaments, the better to kill Israelis, school texbooks that portrayed Jews as beasts and insects, the better to teach impressionable young Palestinian children that Jews were not their neighbours but their oppressors, their enemies. The deservedly-ousted Liberals are now expending all their energies in criticizing the actions of the current government which has taken steps to restore pride to the people of Canada.
The government opposition parties demanded a House of Commons Committee look into the decisions and pronouncements of this new government, and the Conservative Minister of Foreign Affairs sat before the committee absorbing the righteous wrath of his colleagues in the House of Commons. Not that the previous Liberal government would conceivably have been able to act more decisively and expeditiously to bring Canadians of Lebanese heritage out of an unexpected war zone than the Conservatives did, but they'd like to leave the impression, indelibly, that they could and would have.
The NDP's Alexa McDonough spit vitriole at Peter MacKay, condemning his words of support of the Government of Israel in launching a defensive attack against the Hezbollah jihadists from Lebanon. People are dying! she agonized accusingly, making it quite clear that the dying people she was concerned with were poor Lebanese civilians, mostly supporters of the fascist Hezbollah brigands, not equally-innocent Israeli citizens. The war must be stopped, instanter! Leaving Israel in the near future to endure increasingly more dangerous attacks.
The Bloc Quebecois ripped into MacKay and his government, the Liberal has-beens did, and so did the NDP. Thank heavens none of these representatives of the people happen to be in a position of decision-making on behalf of Canada. Some of them have had ample opportunity to act on behalf of Canada and the results have been dismal beyond belief.
At least, a government and a government position based on moral certitude.
posted by Pieface @ Friday, August 04, 2006
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