With great fanfare, an international
organization has announced it is honouring
Stephen Harper as its World Statesman of the Year for his work as
a “champion of democracy, freedom and human rights.”
It is of course a pure coincidence that
this 'award' is from an organization founded by a Rabbi and in
Harpers eyes Israel can do no wrong, however as Bob
Hepburn of the Star points out “the foundation either blatantly
ignored or didn’t know that Harper is arguably the worst prime
minister in history when it comes to defending democracy and human
rights in Canada.”
Indeed the blatant disregard for
democracy and parliamentary process has been documented weekly on
these pages since shortly after the first time he shut down
parliament to avoid facing a confidence vote. That any organization
should present this man with such an award shows how out of touch
with reality they are, and is indeed as several other commentators
have said a cruel
insult to the people of Canada.
I could now go on to list the many
things that this regimen has done under Harper’s leadership to
reduce our Parliamentary Democracy to a shadow of its former self but
I would just be repeating a long list already documented
here and by many other writers both academic and otherwise. I
will remind you however that these are the folk that are fighting
tooth and nail to avoid any real investigation or
information to surface regarding the well
documented attempt to compromise the 2011 election. If you believed in democracy the first thing you would do is do everything
and anything to get the the bottom of the 'allegations'. NOT this
lot!
Update:-
An Avaaz petition, just started by a Canadian, is asking the foundation to reconsider granting this award and is available online; it lists several of the reasons this is such an egregious insult to all people who believe in the tenets of real democracy and human rights.
I sincerely hope you will consider signing it. It can be accessed here.
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Update:-
An Avaaz petition, just started by a Canadian, is asking the foundation to reconsider granting this award and is available online; it lists several of the reasons this is such an egregious insult to all people who believe in the tenets of real democracy and human rights.
I sincerely hope you will consider signing it. It can be accessed here.
1 comment:
Right on! This is an insult. An empty-headed, hack-fest of an insult.
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