- Rock On, Iggie!

Submitted: 11:36, PDT CBC News
Canada's UN loss 'most embarrassing moment': Ignatieff, November 2, 2010, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/11/02/ignatieff-speech-foreign-relations.html#socialcomments-submit

Mr. Ignatieff, when you're right (morally, that is), you're right.

The loss is very embarrassing, if you're one on the 2/3rds of all Canadians that are not die-hard supporters of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party.

These die-hards (manifested as 33% in all the polls) support Harper and the Cons pretty much no matter what, based solely on ideological reasons and the facts, rationality and the impact on Canada and all Canadians be dam[redacted]ed.

Harper and the Con's are right-wing extremists and so too these die-hards.

It would be folly to think that the leaders in the Int'l community don't see Harper and the Con's for what they are.

When Harper says "Our engagement internationally . . . promotion of our values" he is referring to the extremist, right-wing promotion of the extremist, right-wing policies of the Conservative Party and their core (33%) of die-hard supporters, i.e. Con'ism.

He is not referring to the "promotion of our values" of the vast majority of Canadians, who do so in the same moderate, conciliatory, balanced fashion that Canada has demonstrated on the International stage since the inception of the UN and for which it won the Security Counsel seat 6 time out of 6. The only real difference this time is Harper, his extremist, right-wing, policies and approach to Int'l affairs.

We could only have hoped that the Int'l Community was writing Harper off to a 'right wing extremism anomaly in Canada's history' - a brief distortion in the continuum of true Canadian values. They didn't and God help Canada if it isn't.

That Harper and the Con's would try to blame the loss on Ignatieff and the other countries that are normally on Canada's side changing their vote is also a big embarrassment. The whole purpose of a secret ballot is so the members can vote their conscience and not have to fear reprisals from Harper, and given the vicious manner in which he and the other Con's attack anyone that dares oppose them, can you really blame them.

Of course Harper has a real track record for not accepting responsibility for anything that goes wrong. Either it is a civil servant or the opposition. If all else fails, he claims the Liberals did it when they were in office. For the government of this great nation to do this is also an embarrassment, domestically, if not Internationally.

As long as the Harper policies do not consolidate the opposition then Harper can, and does, embarrass us all with impunity.

Unless vast majority of Canadians are willing to stand up, be counted, and in unison say "I want my Canada back" Harper will continue to embarrass Canada and all Canadians.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html