First came former Canadian Liberal Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, who portrayed President George W. Bush as a gunhappy cowboy about to take potshots at intelligent life on other planets.
Now, in the politically correct parlance of Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin, President George W. Bush is a dictator.
Okay for Martin to accuse the U.S. of lacking a "global conscience" when it comes to global warming, but not okay for U.S. ambassador David Wilkins to warn Canadian politicians not to bash the U.S. as part of their election campaigning.
In his latest tirade, Martin has told Washington not to dictate to him what topics he can raise in the run-up to Canada's January 23 election.
In essence, Martin is portraying Bush as a dictator.
"When it comes to defending Canadian values, when it comes to standing up for Canadian interests, I'm going to call it like I see it," Martin told reporters in a lumber yard in Richmond, British Columbia.
Since when is Martin, whose government made same-sex marriage law, a champion of defending Canadian values?
Forgetting that some of the polls indicating that most Canadians dislike President Bush polled only a thousand people, Martin may not be on solid ground in pandering to what he identifies as Canada's anti-american constituency.
Martin is under no real threat of being dictated to from Washington. He is under the more frightening threat of being returned to Ottawa in the same humiliating status that he left it: as leader of a minority Liberal government.
Wishy washy in anything not strictly United Nations, Martin is anything but wishy-washy when it comes to his country's next door neighbour and number one trading partner.
alluding to President Bush as a dictator lends no credence to Martin's December 2003 promise that he would repair relations with the United States, damaged by his predecessor's decision not to take part in the Iraq war.
Indeed, those relations took a nosedive from bad to worse soon after he came to power.
Perhaps the best thing that can come out of a U.S. dictatorship is the 25,000 to 32,000 "refugees' welcomed each year to Canada along with the 200,000 a year immigrants. Many of the refugees fled dictators. Perhaps under a dictator, american refugees can flood Canada Immigration to replace some of the terrorists, including the 8,000 Tamil terrorists now living in Toronto.
Here's the deal missed by the mainline media in Paul Martin's Canada:
Martin handpicked Frank McKenna as Canada's ambassador to the United States. In an October public speech, McKenna called the american government "dysfunctional".
No apology was ever made for McKenna's insult by the Martin administration.
Martin's mentor Maurice Strong, a key architect of the Kyoto protocol, has been like a broken record in his repeated criticism of the U.S. blaming Uncle Sam for the lion's share of environmental problems plaguing Mother Earth.
Strong, more readily identified through his powerful connections to the United Nations, is Martin's senior advisor and long-time protégé.
Martin's favourite dictator seems to be the one who presides over China in an era where human rights are trampled. While Martin has solidified Canada's extensive business ties with the Communist People's Republic of China, Strong works actively grooming China as the world's next superpower.
If Strong were a citizen of the United States rather than Canada, he likely would have been charged with treason, long before allegations of his ties in the Oil-for-Food scandal could be investigated,
Meanwhile, Martin's shameful anti-american posture seems to be spreading.
Where is Canadian intestinal fortitude now that nobody running for election in UN-loving Canada wants to be portrayed as being too pro-american?
"I actually think the U.S. ambassador's intervention was inappropriate…I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views, or intervening in an election," Harper told reporters in Vancouver.
Guess this doesn't cover his own ambassador, who openly calls the U.S. government "dysfunctional".
Not all Canadians are anti-american and Martin and Harper dishonour them by portraying them that way.
When the old adage "You can dish it out, but you can't take it" was being coined, its originators must have had crybaby Canadian politicians in mind.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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