Pot? Kettle? Black?
At a UN Human Rights Council shindig in Geneva, Canada's own human rights record was eviscerated by a motley of B-list dictatorships and outright pariah states. Judged and found wanting by the likes of Cuba, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Canada impressed everyone on the cocktail wiener circuit when we took 68 points of rebuke grovelling like a cur. The catalogue of complaints is high farce: "Cuba criticized Canada for its discriminatory policies against Aboriginals and for cutting HIV/AIDS programmes. [Were Cuba's own indigenous people, the Taíno and Ciboney not extinct, Cuba would surely treat them like kings. No mention was made of Cuba's concentration camps for AIDS sufferers.]
Saudi Arabia said there has been a re-emergence of 'anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.' [Ah, yes, Saudi Arabia, defender of other people's faiths. Just a quick list, please, of the leading synagogues in Riyadh?]
Syria called for an end to racial discrimination against the Arab and Muslim communities in Canada, including 'racial and religious profiling' . [Syria, home of honour killings. And there were more problems with the Great White North -- ] charges of racism, xenophobia, discrimination against ethnic minorities, poverty and homelessness, the treatment of vagrants and deportation of asylum seekers to countries where they might be tortured.
[We trust this last concern was voiced by one of the thug-states appearing on Canada's extensive 'do not deport' list.] The council urges Canada to closely monitor the situation of disadvantaged groups such as women migrant workers, women prisoners and victims of trafficking. It asks Canada to develop a national strategy to eliminate poverty; to intensify efforts to combat racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia; to give particular attention to Aboriginal women and girls, especially the disabled; and to reconsider its approach to the prohibition of torture." (Canadian Press, February 5, 2009)
And what does that mean? We should permit torture? Time to withdraw from the parliament of fools and stop funding their nonsense.
[This article appears in the February, 2009 issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]
