Canada: Boy Scout exposed at UN

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6484.shtml


Canada’s international do-gooder image was shattered when it lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat, amid back-stabbing, maple syrup bribes, and Israeli-dictated cover-ups.

The humiliating withdrawal by Canada from the race with Germany and Portugal for a coveted place on the United Nations Security Council revealed what close observers have long known -- that the current Conservative government in Ottawa has nothing but disdain for the world’s tattered peacekeeper and would most likely just use its seat to serve US and Israel’s agenda. Four years of Stephen Harper’s government was enough for the world to turn its back on a once beloved peacenik.

Dubai’s police chief’s announcement Monday that Canada is covering up its arrest of a suspect in Israel’s assassination of Palestinian leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the UAE in January merely confirms the world’s distrust.

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But the old Progressive Conservative Party was hijacked in 2003 by predominantly small-town right-wingers, boosted by the rising evangelical Christian movement, a repeat of what happened to the US Republican Party in the 1990s. The fiasco at the UN was “the world’s response to a Canadian foreign policy designed to please the most reactionary, short-sighted sectors of the Conservative Party’s base -- evangelical Christian Zionists, extreme right-wing Jews, Islamophobes, the military-industrial-academic-complex, mining and oil executives and old Cold-Warriors,” writes Yves Engler, author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid.

In every corner of the world, Ottawa is now following US neocon policies, as if scripted in Bush’s Washington. On environment and the world economy, over the past four years Harper’s government has:

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the article ends with this:

"Israeli-American analyst Israel Matzav laments, “Canada’s candidacy was voted down because of its close relations with Israel.” Perhaps Matzav, Harper and the like should smell the coffee percolating around the world these days. Israeli colonialism and US neocolonialism are increasingly out of favour, at last."

yes we watched as the neo cons took over Canada

[PDJane]

1. The Neo-cons and the Religious Right.

did take over the prarie provinces and parts of the rural areas, although not all.

There is, however, more population in the cities, and the fact that the cities haven't gone that way yet is the reason Harper has a minority government. However, since he is governing as though he has a majority, I'm not sure that matters. I have been very disappointed in the Bloc in all of this, however.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. "Israeli-dictated" etc.

So much that article's credibility.

[Spazito]

3. Canada lost it's bid, and rightly so, because of it's foreign policies in total, not...

because of it's unqualified support of Israel alone. The current neocon government of Canada and it's leader, Harper (a bush wannabe) has followed the bush admin's footsteps re reduced funding in Africa, contempt for the UN, it's stance against climate change and on peacekeeping.