By Arthur Weinreb ——Bio and Archives--July 28, 2014
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“Canada unequivocally calls upon the United Nations to launch an independent investigation to determine the facts surrounding these reports. Canada also calls on the United Nations to ensure in the second case, no rockets are returned to Hamas. Anything less than an independent investigation would be absolutely unacceptable. If proven true, this would fly in the face of all that the United Nations should stand for as an institution committed to the peace and security of its members.”Levin told Baird that the American media engages in a moral equivalency when reporting on Israel and Gaza and asked him if the Canadian media is the same. While Baird had so far simply been repeating the well-known position of the Canadian government regarding Israel and Gaza, his comments about the Canadian media were surprisingly blunt. Baird told the talk show host that a significant portion of the media in Canada is left-wing and anti-Israel and then said, “We don’t care.” Baird said his government stands up for what’s right and does not “go along to get along.” While the left and the media elites will disagree with the Minister’s statement, he’s right. With the exception of Sun News, the media in Canada, that includes the publicly funded CBC, takes the position that Israel is the only bad guy and solely responsible for the Palestinian death toll that has now passed 1,000. While deaths in Gaza, mainly those of children, are highlighted in Canada’s mainstream media, there is little or no mention of Hamas and their firing rockets at Israeli civilians, little or no mention of Hamas as opposed to Palestinian people and little or no mention of the fact the killing would be over if only the terrorist group stopped firing rockets into Israel. In other words, the Canadian media is in tune with CNN and other left-wing media. You would think that when the Foreign Minister of Canada speaks about a current crisis on an American program that has millions of listeners it would be big news. But alas, no. The mainstream Canadian media primarily ignored what Baird told Americans through his appearance on the show and the coverage appears to be limited to one Canadian Press article that has appeared in a few news sources. It would be hard to for CP or anyone else to criticize either the way Levin conducted the interview or Baird’s remarks. Levin let Baird talk and told him he didn’t want to put him on the hot seat, showing the host was aware that Canada’s top diplomat would be in a bad position if he publicly criticized Obama or the American government on an American radio program. The headline that appeared in the Cambridge Times along with the CP version was “Right-wing US radio toasts Harper government over Mideast while blasting Obama.” It seems that any criticism of Obama by someone on the right constitutes a “blasting.” The Canadian media simply doesn’t think a right-wing talk show host interviewing a pro-Israeli government minister is worth spending too much time on. Who cares? They certainly don’t. It is obvious, many conservative listeners of The Mark Levin Show were impressed with the position taken by Harper and Baird on Israel and Gaza. On some Internet sites, comments were made by Americans that they would like to come to Canada. For those Americans who may wish to head north, just be sure and do it legally. Canada protects its southern border.
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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.