The Liberal Party’s Foreign Affairs critic Ujjal Dosanjh (who as long-time readers know seems very much like a communist to me), was all decked-out in an open, wrinkly old shirt and a nifty fleece active-wear vest yesterday for the big TV interview on national television (state-run media: CBC Newsworld). He was called-in to be interviewed because no CBC Newsworld day is complete without hearing at least 80 liberals and far-leftists lecture us, particularly after someone even remotely conservative says or does anything. And when it comes to leftists lecturing the masses from on high, Dosanjh fits the bill to a T, to the point where he was almost wearing a T-shirt.
But that’s petulant, I’m sure. Who cares how he presents himself? We’re just canooks. No need to go nuts with the respect and what not. Dosanjh was no doubt called in for his vast, objective expertise and knowledge of world facts, foreign affairs, and of course diplomacy, since he’s the next Minister of Foreign Affairs if his Liberals, who are Canada’s Natural Governing Party, win the next election.
Specifically he was asked to provide our nation with his liberal-leftist wisdom regarding Canada’s role in Burma, given the crisis there which the Liberals did exactly NOTHING about in all their years in power. So he rambled on and on like a drone for minutes, unchallenged on nearly every key point (or lack thereof) he was attempting to make with his limited resources.
But it surprised me that (unlike me) the brilliant Ujjal Dosanjh, who actually came from India (which in case he didn’t know is in that part of the world), didn’t even know if Burma is or was a member of the Commonwealth. Maybe I’m just picky, but I would have thought that a Foreign Affairs minister should know that—particularly one who preaches “leadership” on the world stage, as he hilariously does. And call me crazy, but if Peter McKay or Maxime Bernier didn’t know whether Burma is or was a member of the Commonwealth, there would be a massive media feeding frenzy comparable only to maggots on a festering open sore. You know, like when George Bush says “nucular” instead of “nuclear” (only in this case, I guess they’d imply he was “a moron, eh”.
Here was his response:
Well I think our government should be providing a much higher, much more uh prominent leadership roll in that issue—I think there are institutions now I don’t recall whether Burma is part of the Commonwealth or used to be part of the Commonwealth—it was a British colony at one time—the fact is that those institutions such as Commonwealth such as the United Nations others um in that part of the world ASEAN and the like they can play a much larger role and we should be uh the international diplomat as a country uh that should be prompting and promoting others to play larger roles but the fact is under this government uh we’ve lost uh that credibility uh because we have essentially in the international arena been identified with uh the U.S. or uh John Howard of Australia those are the two, two allies we have and we don’t see to be working with anyone else.
Maybe he should do as I did, which was to immediately look up “Burma” in my history books and online, which I did when the latest in a long series of crises broke out a week or more ago, just to remind myself of the facts, as I also did the last time something happened there. I’m not the next Foreign Affairs minister for a major country unlike him of course. Apparently Dosanjh just knows he’ll get a pass from his media and and can bypass that “knowledge” step.
And apparently the “news” anchor, Nancy (“very interesting!”) Wilson had absolutely no clue either, and couldn’t help him.
But don’t worry, neither of them are morons. They’re “progressives”.
And furthermore, maybe the brilliant diplomat, international leadership strategist, and Minister of Foreign Affairs in-waiting should stop suggesting, as he did, that Canada has “lost credibility in the international arena” on the basis of the fact that we have identified ourselves as allies of the United States and Australia—as if that were a bad thing. I really don’t know (and I shudder to think) what Dosanjh has in store for our dealings with the U.S. and Australia when he becomes Foreign Affairs minister, but “cold shoulder”, “diplomatic snubs”, and “insults” are a horrible start and should not be part of the Liberal agenda. They are not part of the Canadian agenda. And I’m an expert at that, Dosanjh, and the CBC, so I need no help from you in that regard, thanks.
And I really don’t think a future Minister of Foreign Affairs should suggest—try to convince Canadians on national television —that we as a nation have “lost credibility”. That’s not very smart, not very diplomatic, and it’s absolutely the opposite of pro-Canadian or patriotic.
And moreover, he should stop depicting Canada as a country with no other allies and working relationships (this news would come as a shock to many countries, Dosanjh), notwithstanding our nation’s extensive diplomatic visits and efforts all over the world in the past few short months. (Diplomatic work and finally, some more resolute policy initiatives which have together bolstered Canada’s credibility from that deep low of the Liberal government era, in which our country was being utterly and embarrassingly ignored on the international stage).
Anyway the important thing is that the state-run CBC and Liberal Party future Minister of Foreign Affairs denigrated Canada to the best of their ability once again, so all’s normal.
P.S.
Taking his fashion tips from Ujjal Dosanjh, here’s Liberal Party House Leader and former finance minister Ralph Goodale on national television today, up again his further leftist albeit properly dressed socialist on his right, and the properly suited Conservative on his left. Ralph went for the cheap golf shirt look as a sign of his great respect for you.
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