The state-owned socialism-reliant CBC, doing a story on a town hall meeting about the now fully Beirut-like gang violence in the liberal and leftist-led Vancouver area, interviewed Vancouver area Liberal MP and organizer of the meeting, the socialist Ujjal Dosanjh, for his thoughts. Reporters actually fled the meeting half-way through, because there was a gangland violence incident to cover, just down the street. Seriously.
Please note how George Bush and Republicans and probably Stephen Harper and neo-cons the world over alone “caused” the global financial meltdown, but the growing gang violence in what has always been liberal-leftist-led Vancouver and BC is “society’s” problem, caused mostly, strangely enough, by conservative-type inaction. It’s weird. Dosanjh helpfully listed some of what he thought were “EXCELLENT” (his emphasis) suggestions from the meeting for the CBC:
“…there were excellent suggestions about actually starting early on with uh good child care, with good programs for youth, youth at risk, employment programs, sports opportunities, recreational after-hour opportunities for youth, uh, counseling programs, uh, uh, you know, uh all of those uh those uh suggestions…”
—CBC interview
He speaks as if those Hells Angels and other gangs are the young Sesame Street set gone wrong, and all they need is a good after-school youth program. I can’t help but imagine the gangsters laughing their crack and methamphetamine-stuffed butts off at Dosanjh’s idea of “excellent suggestions”. Some of them — particularly the members of one of the biggest gangs, the “U.N. Gang”, so-called because they’re largely immigrants (but hush!—don’t mention that bit!) — are probably like me and are bilingual, and can understand the socialist dialect when they hear it, and they laugh it off as I do.
Of course liberals are all universally and officially outraged and against every single action the Conservatives take on criminals and youth crime and so on, so you know, whateva…. yadda. Just as long as we’re clear, this ain’t a liberal-left-caused thang, it be a society thang. Mostly conservatives. Clear? OK. Because only then can we move on and be “progressive”.
Dosanjh said little himself. He stressed the importance of hearing policy suggestions from the public and pledged to put partisan politics aside to take those suggestions to Ottawa.
—Fishy Canadian Press story on the meeting
Angling for a good news story, the CBC managed to fish Dosanjh out today (he happened to find himself at the CBC studios of CBC Vancouver), and, donned in an official Member of Parliament fishing vest, told the state-owned CBC’s anchor Nancy Wilson (also in a vest but more of a news vest) that he will be bringing the findings of the meeting back to Ottawa, where he will give them not to the government or Parliament, but to “Michael Ignatieff, my leader”. Thereby making this stink like a pure partisan politics catch.
Therefore, notwithstanding anything Dosanjh just said, the CBC banner informed Canadians that he plans to take his findings “to Parliament”. So, you know, Parliament, Ignatieff, potatoe, potahhhto. Don’t forget the Liberals are “Canada’s Natural Governing Party”, so it does get confusing.
Nancy Wilson: “…Whadooyadoo with some of these suggestions? Where dooya take this yourself?”
Ujjal Dosanjh: “I’m gonna take them to Ottawa—I’m going to take them to Michael Ignatieff my leader. We are developing a comprehensive platform on the issues of crime and safety … and we’ll be crafting that proposal.”
Well as long as we can help the Liberal Party develop a good campaign platform. Which raises the question as to who paid for this Member of Parliament’s partisan fishing expedition and political platform development mission: the Liberal Party, or all taxpayers?
Don’t worry. Nobody will ask. Fishing limits, donchaknow.
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