Columnist Ted Byfield hammered Liberal Lloyd Axworthy today, which wasn’t hard because Axworthy is but a dumb old nail with a head the size of all get out.
Axworthy, former Liberal cabinet minister and one of the leaders of Canada’s vast left-wing pejorative minority (and if I’m not mistaken, also president of the Winnipeg Chapter of the affiliated Carolyn Parrish Admiration Society), wrote an op/ed piece recently in the form of an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, which I can happily assure you with 100 percent accuracy that she did not read, nor even remotely hear anything about.
She should get over her “fit of pique,” he said, and come to Canada “for a chance to learn a thing or two.”
She would learn, for instance, about Canada’s superior system of government, how Canadian cabinet ministers are “held accountable for their actions,” how (unlike the U.S.) Canada is “not a one-party state,” and how in Canada she would be exposed to “a different point of view.”
Axworthy is now president of the University of Winnipeg.
Perhaps this explains his descent into the sophomoric.
The letter, as the National Post accurately observed, was “snide, sanctimonious, smug and utterly self-righteous.”
It was one thing more. It was instructive. Axworthy is reflecting the deep-seated arrogance that lies behind the New Canada, the new society imposed upon us by judges, bureaucrats, a bevy of academics, and federally financed lobby groups, all pivotally influential in the Martin government.
They are not a club, not a sect, not even a conspiracy.
They simply share an attitude which they proclaim as “the Canadian Way.”
They are anti-American, anti-Christian, and pre-eminently anti-Western Canada. [… Read the rest (30 seconds) …]
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