Last week anne McLellan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Safety and Harry Potter look alike, said that she didn’t think that Canadians are "psychologically prepared" for the type of terrorist attack that took place in London on July 7.
One fascinating aspect of our government is you never know when one of those Liberals is going to tell the truth and McLellan’s comment was one of those times. What the Deputy Prime Minister was really saying was that the government of Canada is not psychologically prepared for an attack on this country. and if the government is psychologically unprepared, chances are that they are unprepared in other areas of security as well.
although McLellan has often said that the main function of government is to protect its citizens they were only words; nothing more, nothing less. The main function of this government was to pass same sex marriage legislation and to try and brainwash Canadians into thinking that there is nothing wrong with our health care system that throwing a few more millions at it won’t solve. Protecting the lives and well being of Canadians is far down the list of priorities. We are no further along than we were on September 12, 2001 when former MP and Cabinet Minister John Manley appeared to be the only member of the Liberal government to actually grasp the significance of what had happened the day before in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
There are two reasons why we are unprepared for London-type attacks. The first is that the government didn’t want us to believe that we are in danger, partly as noted above because they couldn’t come to grips with fact that Canada might be attacked. The government played down Canada’s role in the war in afghanistan, bragged about our refusal to join our traditional allies in the war in Iraq and helped promulgate the belief that we are just so nice, so tolerant and so diverse, that no one would ever want to attack us. The notion that anyone would want to attack Canada is simply beyond the comprehension of many Canadians.
The second reason is, if Ontario is any example, that we are a nation of wimps. Paul Martin won the last election by painting Conservative leader Stephen Harper as too scary to govern. Martin didn’t do that because he actually believes Harper is scary or because he personally dislikes the Conservative leader. Martin chose this tactic because he thought it would work; and it did. Many Canadians, fed up with being governed by the most corrupt government in our history, voted Liberal out of fear of Stephen Harper and his party. If many of our citizens cannot be psychologically prepared to be governed by the Conservative Party of Canada, how they be prepared for a London or Madrid style attack? People remain complacent because we are just too darn nice for anyone to want to attack us. Stephen Harper and his Tories are the real threat, so it seems.
Citytv’s Peter Silverman, speaking the day after the terrorist bombings in London said that at least from an economic point of view, there can be worse things in Canada than an attack on our subways or buildings. Silverman opined that what would be worse is if there was an attack on the United States and the terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada. and he was right.
Silverman made these comments before it was ascertained that those who bombed the London subway system and one of its buses, were British citizens. It is hard to believe that the fact that the terrorists were citizens of the U.K. was just some sort of fluke. With security systems that were put into place on international travel since September 11, 2001, it is a lot more difficult for those like the 9/11 hijackers to move around the world. It is likely that in the future, Western countries will come under attack from their own citizens as did Great Britain. This is now the "newest" normal.
an attack upon the United States coming from Canada and carried out by Canadian citizens would make the money lost from the ban of Canadian beef in the United States look like chump change. Never again would Canadians or Canadian goods be able to enter the United States as easily as they do now. The impact on Canada would be so much greater than a couple of subway stations being blown up.
Perhaps the terrorist bombings in London will be a wakeup call, not only for Canadians but for the Liberal government who has yet to comprehend the dangers that terrorism poses to this country. But no one should hold their breath.