Three Cheers for Canada and Our Stand on International Human Rights
Canada has opted out of the 2009 United Nations Human Rights conference. The reason? Canada actually cares about human rights.
kangaroo Human Rights Council. A youtube of the votes (30-1, with 15 abstentions) is here. Check out the 30 countries that voted in favour of the condemnation.
The Stephen Harper government has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference scheduled to take place next year in South Africa, according to a media release today from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.Also, yesterday, Canada was the only country to vote against an anti-Israel motion before the UN
Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity, said today that the conference, like its predecessor in 2001, "has gone completely off the rails... Canada is interested in combating racism, not promoting it. We'll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance".
... The last UN anti-racism conference held in Durban in 2001 degenerated into a hate-fest of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel vitriol, while the most egregious human rights violators escaped criticism. The Toronto Star today reported that "all of the non-governmental organizations invited to the first conference have been invited back to the second, including those that were at the 'forefront of the hatred', some of which posted pro-Hitler posters at the 2001 gathering."
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is in charge of planning for the conference, an entity that has directed 93% of its resolutions on human rights violations at just one nation - Israel. Iran is a member of the organizing committee, despite its government's open call to wipe the Jewish homeland off the face of the earth.
"The Stephen Harper government has again demonstrated that Canada can project power as a moral leader in international affairs," added [Alistair] Gordon [Director of the Canadian Coalition for Democracies]. "A nation does not need a massive military to provide the moral leadership and clarity that denies legitimacy to Orwellian UN agencies that hijack the language of human rights to promote Jew-hatred.
"Stephen Harper has signaled that Canada will act on principle, regardless of UN consensus. This is the stuff of global leadership."
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Friday, January 25, 2008 at 5:38am
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I'm a proud Canadian, but have never been more ashamed to be a Canadian than now, when Mr. Harper &Mr. Mackay, easily the worst PM &FM in Canadian history respectively; repeat the American view that "Israel has a right to defend herself", no matter the atrocities the IDF &IAF are responsible for on a daily basis.
For you to attempt to justify Mr. Harper's disregard for the UN, in contrast to the opinion of the people he has been elected to represent is an irresponsible act of Canadian &international citizenship. I can't really comprehend how anyone can accept what happens in the occupied territories as "Israel defending herself". But I truly enjoy arguing with 'people like you'.
P.S. There were no "pro hitler posters" in Durban, but there were posters comparing Ariel Sharon to hitler, an apt comparison if there ever was one (have they pulled his plug yet?).
You are "friend of Israel?" Maybe you should think a bit more about who your friends are and what they are doing.
I doubt you would support any other so called western nation violating even 1/10 of the human rights violations and just generally racist and tribal behavior that you see in Israel.
What? You saw a movie of the Holocaust depicting Jews as victims? Jews can NEVER be the aggressors, the perpetrators of violence and hatred?
Think again.
http://tinyurl.com/36rghe
Then either say why the Guardian got it all wrong or why they still support Canada attending the follow-up.
Interesting comments. The idea that a poster comparing one leader, any leader, to Hitler at a conference against racism would be appropriate demonstrates that racism is still very alive. Of course there are many issues (how is it that the Olmpics can be held in China?), many countries including our own that could do better. I fail to see how targeting any group is going to help, that is exactly the problem. Other fourms need to hold countries and individuals accountable. A conference on combating racism should be just that. Posters of Hitler should be left at home. I can also tell you without any doubt that there is no Jewish conspiracy that saved lives on 911. Do you people really believe that there is some kind of Jewish network keeping all Jews informed? Really, shake your head.
What are you more proud of, that Canada effectively collaborated in the Holocaust, or the fact she spends virtually nothing on her own defence and instead hides behind America's skirts?
'There were no "pro hitler posters" in Durban, but there were posters comparing Ariel Sharon to hitler, an apt comparison if there ever was one'
A far more apt comparison would be between you and Joseph Goebbels or any one of the innumberable Islamofascist leaders in Canada and around the world.
'have they pulled his plug yet?'
Thankfully no, but, I can assure you, most of us here will cheer very loudly if and when they pull yours.
Robinson in Durban: I am a Jew
'Waving a book of anti-Semitic cartoons distributed at the anti-racism conference in Durban, UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson - in a dramatic act of identification with the Jews vilified in the pamphlet - declared "I am a Jew" at an NGO dinner there Wednesday night." '
http://tinyurl.com/282weh
If you really want to see "racist and tribal behavior" in action, I suggest you observe more closely the beliefs and conduct of every single Muslim nation in the world, or indeed the beliefs and conduct of the majority of the one billion Muslims.