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Canada's failure to obtain a seat on the UN Security Council is a clear indication that a large part of the world doesn't agree with the Harper government's characterization of Canada's foreign policy as "principled."
The federal government's attempt to censor or to marginalize pro-Palestinian individuals and organizations is a serious problem facing Canada's Arab and Muslim communities.
Last week the United Arab Emirates, unhappy that Canada refused to provide a number of new landing rights for Emirates Airlines in Dubai and Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi, forbade Canadian flights to and from Camp Mirage. Canada was already scheduled to leave by November 2.
In the 2009 World Wildlife Fund climate change report card Harper's Canada shamefully was ranked last.
Imagine a country where Parliament is padlocked twice in 13 months to frustrate the democratic will of the elected majority. That country is now this country.
As Kwitsel Tatel's case for illegal possession of fish, contrary to provisions in Canada's Fisheries Act is now in its ninth year, the Aboriginal women from the Fraser Valley in British Columbia said the people of Canada should see how the government of Canada is operating systematically to see that Aboriginal people are overrepresented in Canada's penal system.
Stephen Harper is seeking legislative authority to give more power to CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) in order to fight terrorism. At least that is the cover story.
Indeed, it appears that Stephen Harper and his ideologically like-minded colleagues have changed Canada and, of course, for what the prime minister and his minions consider to be for the better.
In the days when Stephen Harper was a trusted lieutenant of Reform Party leader Preston Manning and an influential ideologue, trusted with vetting Reform Party political strategy, Mr. Manning was often characterized as paranoid but Mr. Harper himself escaped this label; until now that is.
Back in 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, "I think the government of Canada, when a Canadian citizen is ill-treated and when the rights of a Canadian citizen need to be defended, I think it's always the obligation of the government of Canada to vocally and publicly stand up for that Canadian citizen. That is what we will continue to do." That was then and this is now. He was talking about the case of Huseyn Celil, a Uyghur from China who is a Canadian citizen and who served as an imam in Hamilton, Ontario.
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