The good Canadian Coalition for Democracies issued a news release today which ties in nicely with my weekend blog entry about Canada’s strangely leadership-y vote at the United Nations last week, which I found to be both correct and refreshing and pro-Israel rather than pro-terrorist. Clearly we have a new government.
The good folks at the CCD certainly seem to agree with my take on things. Which makes them super smart.
I hope Canada continues along this new leadership path and keep building Canada’s good name back up to where it used to be (pre recent Liberal governments): among the sensible leader nations of the free world.
Making Canada a leader at the UN
Statement from the Canadian Coalition for DemocraciesFor immediate release
Toronto, Canada – Sunday, March 12, 2006 – Nathan Sharansky argued in this book, The Case for Democracy, that we need leaders with the moral clarity to see evil. March 10, 2006 may prove to be the day in which Canada moved from being a follower of the world’s tyrants and appeasers to a principled leader at the United Nations.
On the first of this year’s many anti-Israel resolutions that will be tabled at various UN forums, Canada shifted its vote at the UN Economic and Social Council from “abstain’ to “no’, standing against a tide of 41 out of 43 representatives on that forum who voted to censure Israel.
As Canada’s new government prepares to evaluate our foreign policy, many are asking, “How should Canada vote on these anti-Israel resolutions?” Put simply, we at the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) are strongly urging Canada to vote “no’ on every anti-Israel resolution tabled at the UN, regardless of the resolution’s content and regardless of whether or not Israel deserves criticism.
The abuse of process that has gone on for decades at the UN makes a policy of “Just vote NO’ the only ethical position to take. No fair-minded person could believe that UN resolutions have been used as an even-handed mechanism for censuring inappropriate behaviour of its member states. In fact, of over 700 General Assembly resolutions passed since the UN’s 1945 establishment, nearly 450 condemn Israel! Almost none have been passed against any Arab country nor any Arab terrorist organizations. The UN has been corrupted to support the genocidal goals of Israel’s enemies, and Canada must not legitimize such a process by its participation.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay have an opportunity to assume a leadership role in global foreign policy. Will Canada follow Europe in appeasing the bullies at the UN, or will Canada do the right thing and show its contempt for the obviously corrupt use of UN resolutions against the only true democracy in the Middle East? Canada does not need a massive military to achieve this leadership position. We merely need to do the right thing. Others will take note and follow.
From vilification by those who sought accommodation of Hitler, history now writes that it was Churchill who understood the threat of Nazism and the cost of seeking consensus with Hitler. Stephen Harper could go down in history as the Prime Minister who broke from the herd and let the UN know that ethics and democracy are more important than consensus.
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