One of the Vancouver Sun editorials this morning, headlined “Conservatives are right to ban terrorist front group”, was kind to the Harper Conservatives.
It started:
Banning the Tamil Tigers is another welcome sign of a tough-mindedness in Stephen Harper’s new Conservative government.
I hate arguing with a compliment, but I don’t even think it’s “tough-mindedness”, quite frankly, I think it’s “just normal”. But anyway, they ended with this juicy National Post anecdote:
That it has taken this long reflects our previous Liberal government’s dependence on the immigrant vote.
National Post reporter Stewart Bell relates how Tamil separatists used their influence in Canada: “The president of the Montreal chapter of the World Tamil Movement, ruled by the federal court in 1997 to be a Tamil Tigers front organization, told me how he had helped a Liberal party candidate during the 2000 federal election campaign. ‘She came to our event, she was shocked, so I told her, ‘Madam, my one word will give all these votes to you.’ I told her and it was done; all the Sri Lankan votes went to the Liberals, here in Montreal.”
This is a good day for Public Security Minister Stockwell Day who, even in opposition, pressed the Liberal government to take this action.
All Canadians, however, can share his satisfaction that finally, their government is doing the right thing.
“Finally, their government is doing the right thing” means that in the past 13 years, their government was doing the wrong thing. And yet as in the case of my previous blog entry, I find it unimaginable that the media hardly—if at all—questioned the Liberals on this wrong thing, during all of that time they were in power. We did, however, hear a lot about Conservative Party “hidden agendas”, ironically enough, given what they just got done writing above.
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