- Harper - I want my Canada back

Posted: 3/30/2010 10:34:18 AM The Globe and Mail
Tories swat away foreign-policy flak, The Canadian Press, Mar. 29, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/tories-swat-away-foreign-policy-flak/article1516045/

Jason Kenny statement 'Canada's foreign policy is on the right track' would be more accurately described as 'extreme right wing ideological' track.

When Kenny says "I think we should have a principled approach everywhere" he is referring to the extreme right wing ideologically based conservative principles, the same ones that the conservative movement champion by the Republican in the US.

Fowler is right (morally) when he says that Stephen Harper and the Con's are "selling out our widely admired and long-established reputation for fairness and justice.” Canada's foreign policies since Harper and the Con's took power have and are taking a extreme right turn.

In fact it applies to domestic policies as well and is not just restricted to trying to get the ethnic vote. As Van Loan once said “The professor has a different philosophy than us,” ('professor here be just about any rationally and honestly motivated person).

Canada is a middle of the road, tolerant, democratic society focused on helping those that need help and protecting those that need protection. Africa needs help. The Middle East need tolerance. Canada was there and Fowler was at the vanguard. In the Harper Regime those are by-gone days.

It is understandable that Fowler might lament the once greatness that was Canada's. So do a lot of Canadians, myself included.

In the immortalized words of Ken Dryden in his closing remark in the Liberal Leadership race "I want my Canada back"!

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html