Prime Minister:
It’s 2015!
In November 2015, Prime Minister
Trudeau was pleased as punch to announce his Cabinet which consisted of 15
women and 15 men, as he saw it, struck a blow for gender equality, as he had
promised he would do during the election campaign.
When a journalist asked him the reasoning behind forming a cabinet with a perfect male-female split
was so important to him, the Prime Minister quipped: ``Because it`s 2015.”
As Abe Greenwald in the November 5, 2015 issue of Commentary issue pointed-out the Prime
Minister’s reply “killed debate…; is a witless claim to absolute prerogative; it
dresses up dogma in the finery of historical truth, and casts off inquiry as
another freshly uncovered offense against progress…If you’re a Canadian
wondering what’s wrong with picking up a cabinet on gender-blind merit, well
good like to you.”
About Canada-The Liberal government
Prime
Minister’s more balanced Middle-East policy: It’s 2015!
(The following commentary originates in Abe
Greenwald’s article supra.)Soon after
the Liberal government was formed, Raphael Ahren of the Times of Israel reported that “Canada will strive for a more balanced
policy regarding the Middle East, including active outreach to the Arab
world…Among progressives, the term “balance” can excuse all manner of
foolishness….In a telephone conversation between Trudeau and …Netanyahu, the
Canadian leader ‘explained there would be a shift in tone, but said Canada
would continue to be a friend of Israel’s…’..Foreign Minister Dion, …explained
his rationale…’Israel is a friend, it is an ally but for us to be an effective
ally we need also to strengthen our relationship with other legitimate partners
in the region. For example, we need to strengthen our relationship with Lebanon,
and this will help Lebanon but also Israel. To be helpful, you need to
strengthen your relationship with other legitimate partners, and that is what
we will do’. Dion’s statement is free of content for a reason. There is no sound
justification for Canada to cool relations with Israel while flattering
Israel’s neighbours. There are only stock notions about Israeli misconduct and
the need for “balance in the Middle East affairs. When you act…’mechanically’,
you lose your ability to think critically. What’s the real reason Canada is
changing its tone toward |Israel? Because that’s what liberal governments do these
days. Because it’s 2015.Mischief to follow.”
About Canada-The Liberal government
Israel responsible for the ills befalling it: It`s
2015
Foreign Affairs Minister Dion,
presumably speaking on behalf of the government, in his own convoluted way,
made it clear that Israel shares, if not bears, responsibility for the ills
befalling it.
About Canada-The Liberal government
Absence of a moral sense of equivalence: It`s 2015
In a public statement, the
Foreign Minister equated Palestinian and Israeli “violence and incitement” and
calling on “both sides” to return to the negotiating table.
About Canada-The Liberal government
Inability or unwillingness to empathise and express of
sympathy nor to condemn Palestinian terrorism and mean it: It`s 2016!
On the heels of two
particularly horrifying stabbing attacks by Palestinian terrorists
against two Israeli women-one slashed to death
in front of her traumatised
teenage daughter and the other wounded w while pregnant, Dion issued
Israel a heads up about a more harshly worded reprimand.
About Canada-The Liberal government
Sucking and blowing on the Conservative Anti-BDS
motion: It`s 2016!
Voting for the motion while
considering BDS to be a a position held in good faith Cf. supra.
About Canada-The Liberal government
Refusing to call a spade a spade: It`s 2016!
On or about March 18, 2016 the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose speciality has been to distort reality, came
out with the statement: “Canada is committed to preventing and halting genocide,
ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity”.
So what did he do on behalf of Canada?
Absolutely nothing, even as the
genocidal actions of ISIS against the Yazidis and Christians was staring at his
face. He would not even join the U.S,
Pope Francis, and the European Parliament in describing the terror group’s
actions for what they were: genocide.
And what did Canada do in 2016?
It made a big ado about bringing in refugees that were hardly exposed to the
risk of becoming victims of genocide or to the other criminal horrors of ISIS,
instead of focusing of saving the
Yazidis and the Christians first.
If this was not enough, Canada
changed its mission plan by withdrawing the CF-18 fighters that were capable of
contributing to the prevention of genocide.
Now, finally, Canada has decided
to bring in a measly number (1200) of Yazidis women during 2017.
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