Harper’s government proving there are morals to these Tories
‘A nation with dignity stands by its allies, rather than scorns them …’
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his sturdy and steadfast entourage are giving our nation a new and much-needed moral stature on the international stage.
For that, all Canadians with an ounce of ethics in their genetic make-up should stand a little taller.
Our country no longer associates itself with bands of brigands and bandits who loot their own countries and try to destabilize other nations.
Rather, our new Conservative government backs democracies, not dictatorships.
That’s a bit of a change, isn’t it?
This is best exemplified by our support for Israel as it fights for survival against the terrorist groups Hezbollah—a proxy for fanatical Iran—and against the terrorist group Hamas—a proxy for radical Syria.
And the Harper regime has already mended fences with our closest neighbour and largest trading partner, the U.S.
Canada no longer supports scurrilous anti-Israeli resolutions put before the scandal-ridden UN.
Washington is no longer subjected to the non-stop abuse hurled at it under the loathsome Jean Chretien and Paul Martin regimes.
We are also refusing to kowtow before Communist China, which laughingly threatens trade sanctions against us for making the valiant Tibetan religious leader the Dalai Lama an honorary Canadian citizen.
Gone are the days when prime ministers such as Pierre Trudeau clasped the hands of brutal dictators such as Cuba’s monstrous Fidel Castro—now, thankfully, seemingly on his death bed—and China’s Mao Tse-tung—estimated to have slaughtered up to 80 million of his own people.
Today, we are now standing on the world stage for decency, dedication and determination.
What’s more, these are early days yet.
As Harper, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and influential MPs such as Calgary’s Jason Kenney entrench their philosophies in the Liberal-ingrained bureaucracy, we will see many more courageous stands.
OK, OK—the Liberals—what’s left of this ragtag bunch of self-serving hypocrites—whine we have given up our role of being a “neutral” power and tarnished our reputation of being an “honest broker” in international affairs.
That comes from the likes of former foreign affairs minister Lloyd (Red) Axworthy, who detested the U.S. and wanted to take away the defence shield of the western democracies, NATO.
That’s the organization that, for four decades, prevented the bloodlusting Soviet Union from turning Western Europe into a slave state and hurling atomic bombs down on the U.S. and Canada.
On being “neutral” on matters of conscience, recall what Sir Winston Churchill said: “One can hardly be proud of being neutral in deciding to support neither the firefighters nor the victims in the fire they are battling.”
As for being an “honest broker,” again when you side, time after time, with dictatorships in the UN to condemn Israel and side with those wanting to destroy it, where’s the honesty in that?
Particularly so when it was the UN itself that established the modern state of Israel.
Being an “honest broker”—it would seem to me—means defending nations and causes having the same democratic values as you yourself, not nations that disdain those values.
Martin, of course, showed his values—or lack of values—when he attended the terrorist group Tamil Tigers fundraisers, a group Day quickly put on the list of banned terrorist groups in Canada, a plea the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had been urging for months.
Recall at one time during a Liberal regime the government allowed Castro’s planes ferrying Cuban soldiers intent on fighting revolutionary wars in other countries to refuel in Newfoundland, while today the Liberals condemn the Harper government for allowing U.S. to planes carrying known terrorists and murderers to refuel in our country en route to well-deserved incarceration camps.
What a double-standard the liberal-left holds. In their warped minds, promoting evil is good, battling evil is bad.
A nation with dignity stands by its allies, rather than scorns them (though some gentle criticism is not out of line from time to time.)
It doesn’t cringe when tough decisions have to be made.
Today, finally, we have a government with both attributes: It has dignity, and it doesn’t cringe under attack.
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