By Arthur Weinreb ——Bio and Archives--October 7, 2015
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>“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” -- Mark TwainAnd we thought Mark was just trying to be funny. According to Johnstone’s biography, she has a master’s degree in social work from Hamilton’s McMaster University. It is inconceivable that such an ignorant person could end up being an elected member of Canada’s Parliament. But Johnstone is far from the only person who can be classified as not bright enough to be an elected representative. While her knowledge of what happened 70 years ago in another continent is lacking, Liberal candidate Marwan Tabbara has no clue what his party and his country did in the last 14 years. Tabbara is the candidate in the Ontario riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler and attended an all candidates debate over a week ago. His ignorance of major Canadian events and his party’s role in them are shocking. The mental midget said that former Liberal PM Jean Chrétien refused to send troops into Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003. Then when the evil Stephen Harper became prime minister in 2006, he deployed troops to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Well, not exactly. It is true, Chrétien, to the cheers of the Liberals and the NDP, refused to enter the Iraq war in 2003. But this decision was not changed when Harper became prime minister in 2006. While Canada is taking part in the current bombing of ISIS, Canada never entered the war in Iraq that began in 2003. But Chrétien did deploy troops to fight in Afghanistan, not in 2003 but in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 attacks. One hundred and fifty-eight Canadian soldiers lost their lives in Afghanistan but it is hard to believe Tabbara doesn’t know or care about that. If he did, he wouldn’t spout such ignorant nonsense. According to Tabbara’s website, he has a degree in, wait for it, political science from the University of Guelph. Tabbara later apologized about knowing nothing about Canada’s recent Middle East involvements saying he “misspoke.” Right.
“Those who do not learn history, are doomed to repeat it.” -- George SantayanaIf Johnstone and Tabbara are any indication of the quality of some of the candidates out there, Canada is in for a lot of repeating.
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Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur’s latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.