November 11, 2002
Jean Chretien was quoted in a Reuters article as having told a group of businessmen at the recent APEC summit in Mexico that our population is declining and we need more immigrants to come to Canada. Disregarding the fact that the most populous countries in the world are some of the poorest, so far so good. But then the littlest guy from Shawinigan went on to add that if immigrants don’t come, who will use our hospitals--who will use our roads?
Just think of all the trouble former Ontario premier Mike Harris had to endure over cuts to hospital funding. People were a hootin’ and a hollerin’ and a yellin’and and a screamin’ and demonstrations galore were held, all over hospitals. The constant criticism that was levelled at Harris was probably one of the reasons he left provincial politics. Now after all that, we are told by the Sultan of Shawinigan that if we don’t increase immigration levels, there won’t be enough people here to fill the hospitals. Who’da thunk it!
When older SUV-loving baby boomers die off, and are replaced by the bicycle riding generation, who have been brainwashed to associate the internal combustion engine with external combustion of the planet, the roads will be empty. All those red light cameras and nothing to photograph. Whatever will we do?
We all know, even if some of us like the bobbleheads on the federal government’s front benches won’t admit it, that Canada is soft on terrorism. We check immigrants who come to this country up to a point but to really check goes against what the prime minister keeps referring to as Canadian values. It is better to let 10 terrorists come to Canada and set off bombs than to refuse one legitimate immigrant entry. Ask, but don’t ask too much. Besides, we’re such nice people. We have diversity. They will never do anything to us.
It’s all starting to make sense. Who better to come to Canada than terrorists? They can fill the roads with cars and trucks loaded with explosives and crash them into buildings, putting a lot of occupants in hospitals. Roads filled with car bombs and hospitals loaded to the rafters — who could ask for a better legacy?
Now we know the reason why Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham loves Hezbollah. Of course Graham never appears at a press conference wearing an "I love Hezbollah" t-shirt but then he never appears wearing any t-shirt. Graham loves to make the distinction between the terrorist wing and the social wing, and tells us all about the latter which has lawyers and doctors and does wonderful work. Graham sees greater distinctions between the two wings than the organization itself does. The Foreign Affairs Minister sings the praises of Hezbollah while ignoring its many accomplishments over the years. Just to recap, Hezbollah has been responsible for the murder of hundreds of Americans in 1983, the killing of an American on TWA Flight 847, the murder of an American peacekeeper in Lebanon in 1988, the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992 and the bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina in 1994. But then the social wing does good work, much like that former veterinary assistant Karla Homolka, who was very kind to little animals.
Graham loves to compare the two wings of Hezbollah with the situation in Northern Ireland. In his arrogant professorial term, he lectures about how you have the political wing (Sein Fein) and then the terrorist wing (the IRA) and one is good and one is bad. One thing that Graham leaves out of his speech is that neither the IRA, nor any of its offshoots has, as a stated goal, the complete destruction of the United Kingdom, as is Hezbollah’s position with respect to Israel. But until Hezbollah starts killing people who matter to the Canadian government instead of just Jews and Americans, the government will stick to its over regulated guns.
And just when Graham starts to show some sense, acknowledging that who require visas to enter the United States is a matter for the Americans, others jump into the act. Denis Coderre accuses the United States of racial profiling when they announced plans to require Canadian permanent residents born in certain countries to obtain visas in order to enter the U.S. If Coderre spent less time reading the Toronto Star, he would know that this is ethnic profiling, not racial. Coderre announced that he’s annoyed (better watch it there Dubya). He can’t understand why the Americans won’t accept the fact that all our permanent residents, with their new super duper fraud proof plastic cards, have passed stringent security checks. The cards will be fraud proof until the first person successfully forges one.
If that isn’t enough, former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, who much like Bill Clinton, left office but never quite went away, got into the act. According to Pink Lloyd, the U.S. border methods are very dangerous and very serious to our rights and independence--as if any of us have a right to enter the United States.
Canada doesn’t take anti-terrorist activities too seriously. At least now we know why. Keep those roads and hospitals filled.
Arthur Weinreb is a lawyer and author and Associate Editor of Canadafreepress.com, he can be reached at: aweinreb@interlog.com
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