Canadian Sheep
It’s not good that Harper went to Afghanistan and gave a pep talk on March 13 to the people putting their lives on the line there. It was virtually word for word parroting the Bush administration’s war “talking points” while ending the speech with “God bless Canada” in the manner of the President of that theocracy to the south. Canada is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual country without a majority of christians; instead of being a melting pot into one homogeneous white bread we are known to attempt to celebrate and acknowledge the different cultures and religious beliefs to be found here.
Along with our neocon Prime Minister, some of the brass like Cliff Walker of the Corps of Commissionaires are saying not lowering the flag when soldiers die doing peace keeping work overseas is okay because we’re “We’re in a war“. Excuse me? What happened to our peaceful country? If we are there to war with the Taliban bad guys instead of try to change their mindset, there’s going to be a lot more Canadians killed. They have been there a lot longer than us and no reason to believe that they still won’t be there when we leave with a few less citizens than we came with.
War words are being added to the creeping corporatization and privatization of Ottawa and Victoria, and in keeping with the US style of government media control they have disallowed any media to be respectfully present when the soldiers are brought home and repatriated. No worries about anyone in the party not keeping to party line and “looking good” in the heat of the moment either. The politicians once carefully couched their words in language to make Canadians seem different than those to the south, but their words and actions are as if we were American sheep now, and that is certainly not a good thing.