Read my previous blog entry called “1,235 comments”, listen to the audio file accompanying it, then read this.
No no. There is no bias in the classroom. Academia is not biased toward the liberal-left.
(Hat tip to “conservativegal”)
By Natasha Jones
Times Reporter
Feb 12 2006If Dr. David Young’s Grade 6 Humanities class is a fair gauge of public opinion, David Emerson is one unpopular politician.
All 28 students are so indignant about the international trade minister’s defection from the Liberals to the government benches that they have given him a piece of their mind, spelling out their displeasure in letters.
The minister, whose defection was revealed only moments before the new Conservative government was sworn in on Monday, is not the only one to escape the students’ harsh criticism. His boss, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, receives a verbal lashing as the students’ letters are addressed to him, Emerson and Langley MP Mark Warawa.
Sean Basso accused Emerson of cheating the 18,489 people in his Vancouver-Kingsway riding who voted for him in the Jan. 23 election.
“You manipulated them.”
Sean said that Emerson should return the $96,000 raised by supporters for his campaign. “Otherwise, it’s like saying, “oh thanks for the money, but no, I’m just going to use it as funding for my own gain. That’s a crime.”
“You hurt the people’s feelings because you wanted more money. So let’s have a byelection in Vancouver-Kingsway,” wrote Shadoe Reisler.
Adam Viscount suggested that Emerson should have known better. “You are smart enough to know they didn’t vote for you, they voted for the Liberals,” he said.
In their letters, and further classroom comments to The Times, several students expressed outrage that Canada has troops in Afghanistan to boost and uphold democracy.
“Soldiers,” Adam wrote, “are fighting for what you have destroyed in five minutes.”
Wrote Dominic Chew: “You are supposed to represent us and you have failed. I wrote this letter because I care and I think that you should start!”
Students said they were disgusted by Emerson’s decision to cross the floor, and said he betrayed the voters and supporters in his constituency.
Young said that the elected “are supposed to represent the pinnacle of ethics and responsibility and lawfulness.”
But what Prime Minister Harper sanctioned went against those principles. “Our prime minister actively sought to bring someone across the floor for personal gain, and didn’t give the people of Vancouver-Kingsway a choice,” Young said.
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