Monday, June 1, 2009
Canada withdraws aid from the world's poorest
If Necessary Blogging But Not Necessarily Blogging: Diminishing Canada abroad, impacting the world's poorest
Further to last week's post on a multitude of Conservative sins that
were impacting Canada at home and abroad, I would like to draw your
attention to this Geoffrey York article in today's G&M: Banned Aid.
It brings home the effects the Harper changes to foreign aid is having
on one of the world's poorest countries and how it is damaging our
international reputation. Excerpts follow with my highlights in bold.
Read the whole thing. Not because it is funny or there are pictures
of kittens or some such. Because it deserves to be read.
(continue reading at the link)
Further to last week's post on a multitude of Conservative sins that
were impacting Canada at home and abroad, I would like to draw your
attention to this Geoffrey York article in today's G&M: Banned Aid.
It brings home the effects the Harper changes to foreign aid is having
on one of the world's poorest countries and how it is damaging our
international reputation. Excerpts follow with my highlights in bold.
Read the whole thing. Not because it is funny or there are pictures
of kittens or some such. Because it deserves to be read.
(continue reading at the link)
Harper's Law
LeDaro: Harper’s Law
Have you ever sat around a round table which has a big hole in the
middle and wondered that, besides occupying some space, what is the
purpose of that hole? I once dropped my pen in that middle during a
meeting and had a hell of an embarrassing time to retrieve it.
Now
think of Harper and a hole in his head. He is going to come up with a
law where you can sue terrorists in Canada. Firstly, terrorist for us
is someone else's freedom fighter and a freedom fighter for us is
someone else's terrorist. We go and occupy others' land or countries,
we should fully expect that there will be resistance. So we
conveniently call resisters terrorists. That is the way it goes. (This
is no way condones violence on either side - personally I condemn
violence - but illustrates the nature of the discourse).
...
Have you ever sat around a round table which has a big hole in the
middle and wondered that, besides occupying some space, what is the
purpose of that hole? I once dropped my pen in that middle during a
meeting and had a hell of an embarrassing time to retrieve it.
Now
think of Harper and a hole in his head. He is going to come up with a
law where you can sue terrorists in Canada. Firstly, terrorist for us
is someone else's freedom fighter and a freedom fighter for us is
someone else's terrorist. We go and occupy others' land or countries,
we should fully expect that there will be resistance. So we
conveniently call resisters terrorists. That is the way it goes. (This
is no way condones violence on either side - personally I condemn
violence - but illustrates the nature of the discourse).
...
Liberal leader believes in lies, again.
He can see for miles - Peace, order and good government, eh?
...
But what really caught my eye in her reporting on the speeches at
the Canadian Jewish Congress celebration held in Toronto yesterday
evening was her quote from Michael Ignatieff, who said of Iran (among
other things):
It's interesting that someone who finally had to issue a mea culpa
in the matter of an invasion of Iraq based on lies about weapons of
mass destruction would be so quick to repeat such an accusation.
...
...
But what really caught my eye in her reporting on the speeches at
the Canadian Jewish Congress celebration held in Toronto yesterday
evening was her quote from Michael Ignatieff, who said of Iran (among
other things):
This is a state seeking weapons of mass destruction.
It's interesting that someone who finally had to issue a mea culpa
in the matter of an invasion of Iraq based on lies about weapons of
mass destruction would be so quick to repeat such an accusation.
...
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