I wonder if this could have anything to do with Liberal Party vote-getting. Yeah, I sure do wonder. I can’t imagine that to be the case, seeing as we’re talking about the Liberal Party of Canada—the folks currently under a commission of inquiry into corruption and under multiple RCMP criminal investigations for corruption and the likes of money laundering.
Canadian homeland security chief hints Ottawa may outlaw Tamil Tigers
Mon Feb 14, 2:12 PM ET Canada – AFP
OTTAWA (AFP) – Canada’s senior minister responsible for homeland security hinted strongly that she was not excluding adding Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers rebel group to a list of outlawed terrorist organizations.
Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, who is also Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, was cross-examined at a Senate committee hearing about why the Tamil Tigers (or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)) had not been added to a list of 35 terror organizations banned by Canada.
Under Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act, passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon, any member of a terror group on this list can be arrested and all funds associated with such terror groups frozen.
Opposition senator John Lynch-Staunton, of the right-of-centre Conservative Party, said Britain, Australia and the United States had banned the Tamil Tigers who were on a United Nations list of terror organizations. He wanted to know why Canada had not done the same.
McLellan replied: “We constantly review who should be on the list.”
The main reason for not listing them, so far, she said, was that “the current minister of foreign affairs (Pierre Pettigrew) and the previous minister of foreign affairs (now Defence Minister Bill Graham) have said that there is some hope for the Sri Lankan peace process and perhaps it would be perceived as not helpful to list the LTTE.”
Lynch-Staunton retorted: “Money has been raised (by the LTTE) for terrorist purposes.”
McLellan, in her strongest hint that she might add the LTTE to the list of groups of banned terrorist organizations, replied: “Senator, I take your point.”
“I take your point” is a “strong hint”? The only “strong hint” I’m picking up here is that the Liberals support this group, and perhaps vice-versa.
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