Homosexuality is a natural facet of mammalian life. It occurs in most species to some extent, but there is a biological reason for it. It occurs within a small minority and the biological reason is one of nature’s ways of implementing population control.
There is no moral judgement in that. Gays should be entitled to equal rights, be free from all forms of discrimination and Gay marriage can actually be beneficial for society.
But it’s a far cry from that to saying homosexuality, something that occurs in about 2% of the population, is ‘normal’ or that gender is something that can be a choice.
These ideas are part of the idiocy fostered in places like the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where some programs are comprised of majority Gay students and staff, and by their willing accomplices at Ontario’s Ministry of Education and by the ridiculous leadership of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
Among the latest absurd attempts at social engineering, the TDSB wants to encourage cross-dressing in children as young as pre-school.
Pre-school?
Among the books recommended to kids in pre-school to Grade 3 by the TDSB’sPositive Spaces Resources is a book called My Princess Boy, the protagonist of which is a young boy who wears dresses and a tiara.
Evidently being Gay-positive isn’t enough for the TDSB, it now wants, at the youngest age, to encourage boys to be flaming queens.
In a system where most children can’t name all Canada’s provinces and provincial capitals, it’s heartening to know that they spend so much time emphasising `gender choices.“
It`s hardly any wonder that so many university professors are noticing that students entering post-secondary studies don`t even know how to properly punctuate a sentence.
But at least Toronto`s public schools are giving them a head-start on learning how to accessorize.
Remember folks what the Left calls education, is actually indoctrination.
1389 Blog has news about what Human Rights has devolved into in Canada. Human rights, a legitimate concern has been hijacked by the Left with increasingly disturbing results
Kangaroo courts waste tax dollars, time
By Charles Adler, QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, February 21, 2013 08:00 PM EST | Updated: Friday, February 22, 2013 06:56 AM ESTCanadians are truly fortunate for many reasons. But an unfortunate side effect of our privileged position is many Canadians have lost the understanding of true human rights.
Provincial human rights commissions are supposed to protect citizens from genuine acts of discrimination. But all too often they act as misguided enforcers for the easily offended — a forum for people who seek out anything remotely controversial and warp basic human disagreements into human rights violations.
Take restaurant chain Earls and its Albino Rhino beer, sold in 50 locations across Canada and the U.S. Albino rhinos actually do exist. So do albino lions, birds, dolphins and reptiles; they have in common the condition where there is no pigment in the skin, increasing sun sensitivity.
But it was the extreme sensitivity of a human albino, Ikponwosa Ero, that has caused a lot of problems for Earls. Ero complained that Earls didn’t understand that it was “demeaning and humiliating for their condition to be featured on a menu item.” She went to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. Earl’s caved to the politically correct plaintiffs.
Suppose I made a beer and called it “Bucky Beaver.” That’s just plain insensitive to those who suffer from “overjet” — buck teeth.
How about something like “Hairy Monkey”? That would drive people with hypertrichosis — excessive body hair — into a deep depression.
There’s a lot more at stake here than a brand of beer. The victory over Earls’ Albino Rhino is only the most recent example of how human rights commissions can empower even a single person to infringe on the freedoms of everyone else. These cases not only inhibit us but they can also harm us.
When Beena Datt, a McDonald’s employee, claimed she had developed a skin condition and could no longer wash her hands to restaurant standards, McDonald’s ended up letting her go, after searching for a solution. What happened? The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled McDonald’s had to pay Datt $23,000 for lost income, $25,000 for lost dignity plus all her legal fees and rehab experts. Then to top it all off, the tribunal ordered McDonald’s to stop discriminating against people who can’t wash their hands!
In Alberta, the provincial human rights commission awarded Ruby Repas $5,000 after fighting for her right to work in a restaurant while infected with hepatitis.
This is just another front in the Left’s assault on Western values.
Stacy McCain asks us to remember that Jihadists are using the courts to attack and silence those who expose them. The lawfare attack on Blazing Cat Fur being a great example
“Zionist” is becoming a synonym for “Anyone Who Doesn’t Want to Liquidate Israel,” as Kathy Shaidle explains:
As we’ve known for some time, Canadian Muslims have been putting together a lawfare case designed to silence my husband’s blog, BlazingCatFur.
Now they’ve admitted this online at a Khomenist site, asking for donations to support The Man Who Is Suing Us in separate actions related to Canada’s Human Rights Commissions.
They specifically say they are targeting my husband because he is a “Zionist.” . . .Read the rest at Five Feet of Fury and hit their tip jar — I did.
Remember, it is Blazing Cat Fur today, it is in Canada today, but if this deplorable tactic works, it might be your blog tomorrow. This is an assault on Western culture and values, and never forget that! Hell this is already happening here, as McCain notes often. Miscreants like this douche nozzle want to shut us up
Patterico comments on the habits of sociopathic monsters: “I have seen this exact pattern play itself out, again and again.” One of his commenters offers a helpful comparison:
Like Richard Dawkin’s attacks on religion – completely irrational and hateful but he justifies it by claiming that he’s opposing something hateful and irrational.
Stacy McCain opines today that everyone hates Piers Morgan
The petition to deport Piers Morgan is now nearing 90,000 signatures— which is what I’d call “a gpod start” — and this groundswell of antipathy to being lectured by a smarmy Brit on CNN has now reached America’s youth, including Michael Butler at The High School Conservative:
Piers Morgan “has a case of the sads” over the deportation petition, tweeting things such as “Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for ‘attacking 2nd amendment rights’ – is my opinion not protected under 1st amendment rights?” One witty twitter user responded with “You ignore the Constitution, why shouldn’t they?” For those of you wondering if we really can deport Piers Morgan for being stupid, we can. James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal explains, “Your opinion is protected, your presence in the U.S. is not. See Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972).” . . .
There is also a response petition from British citizens which reads, “We got rid of him once and why should we have to suffer again. The Americans wanted him so they should put up with him. We washed our hands of him a long time ago.
McCain goes on to suggest we send Piers to France, or Canada. Hmmm, I can see Morgan in a beret, in fact, he sort of looks like he is wearing one when you watch him on CNN, if you are among the 77 people who do. He has that air of arrogance, that air of self-importance, and that accent, which is super hot on a woman (think Julia Ormond, Emma Samms, Kate Beckinsale or Kate Winslet), but on a man? But, to be fair here, not everyone hates Piers, just those that have heard him and his snooty drivel. Poor Piers, he just does not understand that when you start berating people who own guns, and criticizing the Bible, lots of folks will hold it against you. And guess what Piers, that First Amendment you are so worried about? It also grants us, the right to criticize you.
Many thoughts came to mind when I read that headline, but WTF summed them up best!
When a woman killed her abusive husband out of self-defense, she found out that ‘he’ was actually a woman wearing a prosthetic penis.
Angelo Heddington and Elizabeth Rudavsky from Canada had a whirlwind romance, which was followed by a shotgun wedding after four months of dating, and then escalating domestic violence.
But when a battered 27-year-old Elizabeth stabbed Angelo, 30, after he attacked her in 2003, it was the paramedics who discovered a prosthetic penis under ‘his’ clothes on the way to the hospital.
Canada’s stand is the good news!
Via JPost:
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, who delivered a supportive speech of Israel at the UN before its vote Thursday on the Palestinian statehood, said Friday “the bottom line is we will not let the Jewish people and the State of Israel stand alone when the going gets tough.”
Baird, in a phone interview from New York, said he had “absolutely no hesitation” about taking the podium and opposing the Palestinian bid, something he knew was not a popular position in the hall.
The Canadian foreign minister criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the hostile tenor of his speech.
“Knowing that he had such overwhelming support, this would have been an occasion for him to reach out to the government and people of Israel, to embrace the Jewish people, to talk about his hopes for peace and be magnanimous,” he said. “Unfortunately it was a rather aggressive speech that will really do nothing to advance the cause of peace or the peace process.”
Baird said he was “disappointed with some countries in Europe for failing to stand up. I thought the Czech Republic was courageous to take the position it did and stand alone in the European Union. I certainly admire their leadership.”
The Czech Republic was the only EU country to vote against the Palestinian resolution, and – along with Israel and Canada – made up a group of nine countries that opposed the bid.
As I said good for you Canada. The bad news in this? The United States ought to be standing right there too, and standing as strong.
Sorry, but there is no “free” anything when Liberal politicians invent “rights” to get suckers like you to vote for them. Just ask women in Canada, where health care is “free”!
‘It’s a crisis for Quebec women’
Surgery wait times for deadly ovarian, cervical and breast cancers in Quebec are three times longer than government benchmarks, leading some desperate patients to shop around for an operating room.
But that’s a waste of time, doctors say, since the problem is spread across Quebec hospitals. And doctors are refusing to accept new patients quickly because they can’t treat them, health advocates say.
A leading Montreal gynecologist said that these days, she cannot look her patients in the eye because the wait times are so shocking. Lack of resources, including nursing staff and budget compressions, are driving a backlog of surgeries while operating rooms stand empty. The latest figures from the provincial government show that over a span of nearly 11 months, 7,780 patients in the Montreal area waited six months or longer for day surgeries, while another 2,957 waited for six months or longer for operations that required hospitalization.
The worst cases are gynecological cancers, experts say, because usually such a cancer has already spread by the time it is detected. Instead of four weeks from diagnosis to surgery, patients are waiting as long as three months to have cancerous growths removed.
“It’s a crisis for Quebec women,” …
Via Milton Wolf, who notes the tragic irony
The sad irony: Canadian medical refugees flock to America for care as American Democrat policy makers flock to Canada for bad ideas.
Gee, I’m real sorry you died of ovarian cancer … but here’s your free birth control.
Ah the costs that go with the “free” things the ”gimme, gimme, gimme” mind-set clamors for. As I have said before, the promises of Communism are sweet to the ears, but their reality is bitter.
Picked fresh from the best blogroll in existence, here are the links that will make you smile, cry, think, and get you angry, oh, and there will be babes too!
Smitty at The Other McCain asks, and answers the question of the day. Why IS Eric Holder still AG?
Paul Lemmen uses the word of the day, TWATWAFFLE!
The Evil Blogger Lady, who seems nice enough to me, in an evil way, is all about odd dining habits
BC of I’m a Man, I’m 41 diagnoses me with Jungle Fever. To which I reply, I love beautiful women of all colors
Nathan Martin has moved! Here!
The NeoSexist features Natalie Portman on her birthday
Roxeanne de Luca: Chevy Volts still suck!
Stacy on the Right takes a Wisconsin Victory lap
Truth Before Dishonor has some sexy musicians, and has a thing for the fiddle player! I cannot blame him
1389 Blog hails good news from Canada
A Man , a Dog, And A Gun considers Amanda Peet slighlty NSFW
Kurt P: You damned dirty penguins!
View FRom the Beach has Crazy naked Canuck women
Adrienne: My but that Obama fellow is kind of, ah, uninspiring isn’t he?
Duane Lester: I won, I won!
Robert: You know, when I think of Wisonsin, I think of Hope, and Cheese, and not that fake Obama Hope, which stinks like old government cheese!
Aleister has Lanny Davis ripping Team Obama
Donald Douglas: DUDE! also Minka Kelly!
An Old Broad: A picture really is worth…..
Astute Bloggers: More headache inducing PC from our schools
Zion’s Trumpet has the smoking hot Gaby Elizalde CALIENTE!
Wyblog: Obama just does not get it does he?
Woodsterman has a great way to correctly honor Obama
Milton Wolf tells us how to know if we are racist
American Perspective: Hey TSA, READ THIS!
So, What Would the Founders Think?
Western Hero has BBQ!
Barking Moonbat: Humpty Dumpty goes PC!
Blazing Cat Fur has a story that will break your heart
Blogsense by Barb has Special Operations Speak
Bring the Heat honors a warrior
Bunkerville has Mark Levin audio
Bob Belevedere: Carlotta Champagne
Conservative Hideout: Sunday Links
Copious Gasser has Hope Dworacyzk
Da Tech Guy: Is the GOP like Gen. Braxton Bragg?
Daily Pundit: Who really cares about what Peggy Noonan says?
Daniel Greenfield: What Clinton knows
Doug Powers: What Salma Hayek is too sexy, Sheila Jackson Lee is to stupidity!
Doug Ross: Democrats suck at governing
Dustbury: Give me a woman with a sitar!
Troglopundit has motivators madness!
Richard McEnroe: Rockstar Babe video!
Theo Spark has video featuring April Rose Oh my
The Right Way likes Brooklyn Decker
The Lonely Conservative ponders the state of the Democrats
The Last Tradition has a beautiful woman, Dambisa Moyo making Bill Maher look like a moron
The Hostages BIG Boob Friday!
The Classic Liberal brings us Hotties for Paul
That Mr. G Guy: Whither self-defense?
Teresamerica has body painting hotness
Wyatt Earp: Winnie Cooper is single
Sister Toldjah Obam is not Liberal ENOUGH?
Sentry Journal: Ben Franklin would approve these links
Say Anything: TSA Tyranny
Saberpoint: Who is funding Kimberlin?
Jamie Jeffords: Carolina Ardohain
Gateway Pundit: Those nutty Netroot types
Rio Norte Line: The wonders of universal health care
Dan Riehl: What did Charlie Crist swallow, and when did he swallow it?
Reaganite Republican has Sunday funnies
Randy has his Thursday night Tart -Bree Conden
Postal Dog, has been sick, but still does some babe blogging
Jill: Hollow Man
Public Secrets. Really Mr. President?
Proof Positive Shilba Shetty!
PJM: Let me tell you something Ms Pelosi!
Political Jungle: Where is Al Sharpton?
POH Diaries: Woman charged with malicious castration, like there is any OTHER kind?
Pitsnipes loves Asian women
Pirates Cove: Your Sunday Blogless Pinup
Pat Dollard US OUSTS ISRAEL FROM COUNTERTERRORISM FORUM OBAMA CAVES TO ISLAMIC TURKEY
Paco sums up the Obama campaign nicely
Irons in the Fire: Take a Midol and shut the Hell up!
Old Virginia: Bill Press, you just hate America
Nice Deb: Shame on Obama and his leaks
King Shamus on Obama’s dirty joke
Motor City Times: RVs as art?
Moonbattery: David Axlerod dodges, ducks, and dodges some more
William Jacobson: MSNBS’s heart break lampooned
Wirecutter: Yes it is inappropriate, that is why it is so funny
Feral IrishmanL A Scotsman, a Brit, and an Irishman walk into a bar…
Police recovered a torso in a suitcase in Montreal today after a severed foot was sent to the Conservative Party Headquarters in Ottawa. The Montreal discovery was made by a concierge who was looking into complaints about a terrible odor coming from behind a building. The decomposing remains were found at 10:15 a.m in a suitcase in the trash bin.
Janitor Mike Naseau shows police around the scene where a body was found in a suitcase at the back of 5309 Place Lucy in Montreal on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. (Canada.com)
The Star reported:
Ottawa police are investigating the discovery of two body parts – including a bloodied human foot that was delivered by a Canada Post mailman to the Conservative Party headquarters.
Police confirmed late Tuesday that a second body part was found, hours after the coroner concluded that the first package “did contain a human foot.”
It was unclear what body part was in the second package or where it was found. Police wouldn’t confirm reports it was discovered at a Canada Post depot in downtown Ottawa. Canada Post refused to answer any questions late Tuesday, but said they were co-operating with police.
The gruesome sealed package sent to the Conservative Party on Tuesday morning was unknowingly accepted by a receptionist at the headquarters’ 12th-floor suite of offices, said Ottawa police Sgt. Steve Hodgson.
Hodgson said the package was “addressed to the Conservative Party of Canada, not to a person.”
The receptionist began to open the package before discovering “a substance that was deemed suspicious” and called police, he said.
The Ottawa police force, the coroner’s office and the RCMP attended the Albert Street offices, three blocks south of Parliament Hill, where the bizarre drama unfolded.
A police officer removes a package containing a human foot from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday. (The Star)
UPDATE: Police find human hand at postal terminal.
Police found a human hand at the Ottawa Postal Terminal Tuesday night, hours after a bloody foot was delivered to the Conservative party’s Ottawa headquarters just blocks from Parliament Hill.
Ottawa police were still trying to understand what they were dealing with even as detectives in Montreal combed through a crime scene where a torso was found in a suitcase in that city’s Snowdon district.
Police discovered the second package, sent from the same place as the package sent to Tory headquarters, Tuesday evening. Officers carried it from the huge Riverside Drive terminal in a brown paper bag, which they X-rayed before they opened it to find the hand.
Nearly 700 Arrested In Canada Student Protests – AFP
Nearly 700 people were arrested overnight in rowdy demonstrations in Montreal and Quebec over a planned hike in student tuition fees with rocks being hurled at police, a spokesman said Thursday.
Police in Montreal had said the unsanctioned protest would be tolerated if there was no trouble but after some unruly behavior around midnight they moved in and arrested 518 demonstrators. Another 170 people were detained in Quebec.
All were issued with a more-than $600 fine and released on Thursday morning, the police spokesman said.
Several thousand demonstrators had poured into Montreal’s central square late Wednesday for the rally, defying a law passed last week requiring organizers to notify authorities eight hours ahead of public demonstrations.
Of those arrested in Montreal, 506 were held for unlawful assembly but among the other 12 detentions one person was held for “armed aggression,” two others for assaulting police, and one more was detained for wearing a mask.
Protesters said they were handcuffed and their arms held behind their back, local media reported.
Demonstrations have raged in Montreal since mid-February over a plan by provincial Premier Jean Charest to raise tuition fees at Quebec universities by 82 percent to rein in a budget deficit.
Some of the demonstrations have turned violent, with store fronts smashed.
The conflict escalated on Sunday with more than 300 overnight arrests after the passing of the new public assembly law.
It would seem a good idea, a noble venture if the U.N. decided to fight hunger across the globe. It is certainly a terrible problem, plaguing too many in too many nations. I think we can all agree there right? OK, so the U.N. gets a hunger expert, and sends this expert to, CANADA?
“There is no food and no clean water, nothing,” Mahmoud, a 12-year-old boy from Homs, Syria, told Reuters Thursday. “There is no shop open and we only have one meal a day. How can we live like that and survive?”
According to the World Food Program, half a million people don’t have enough to eat in Syria. Fears are growing that the regime is using hunger as a weapon.
This is the kind of emergency which should attract the attention of the UN Human Rights Council’s hunger monitor, who has the ability to spotlight situations and place them on the world agenda. Yet Olivier de Schutter of Belgium, the “Special Rapporteur on the right to food,” is not going to Syria.
Instead, the UN’s food monitor is coming to investigate Canada.
That’s right. Despite dire food emergencies around the globe, De Schutter will be devoting the scarce time and resources of the international community on an 11-day tour of Canada—a country that ranks at the bottom of global hunger concerns.
A key co-ordinator and promoter of De Schutter’s mission is Food Secure Canada, a lobby group whose website accuses the Harper government of “failing Canadians…and [failing to] fulfill the right to food for all.” The group calls instead for a “People’s Food Policy.”
A “right to food”? A People’s Food Policy”? You see there is the problem right there. The buffoons at the U.N. are exploiting a real problem, to push, not for actual solutions to said problem, but to push Marxism onto a free nation. Isn’t this always the case with Leftists and their “good intentions”? It certainly seems so to me.
I asked De Schutter if his time wouldn’t better be spent on calling attention to countries that actually have starving people.
“Globally, 1.3 billion people are overweight or obese,” he responded via his spokesperson, “and this causes a range of diseases such as certain types of cancers, cardio-vascular diseases or (especially) type-2 diabetes that are a huge burden.”
In other words, the hunger expert is not even that interested in hunger, but the opposite. Sure, we should all eat less fries, but do Canadians need a costly UN inquiry to tell us that?
Again, rather than working to elevate starving nations to a better state, the U.N. prefers to try to tear down successful nations. Odd isn’t it? The Left speaks of equality, and fairness. But it always seeks to tear down those people or nations that are doing well. What they seek, it would seem, is not a utopian equality, but rather an equality of misery.
Now, you might call me “extreme” for holding such a view. After all, how could I ever accuse the U.N. of being part of some Marxist plot to attack the West? This is how
First, consider the origins of the UN’s “right to food” mandate. In voluminous background information provided by De Schutter and his local promoters, there’s no mention that their sponsor was Cuba, a country where some women resort to prostitution for food. De Schutter does not want you to know that Havana’s Communist government created his post, nor that the co-sponsors included China, North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe.
These and other repressive regimes are seeking a political weapon to attack the West. That is why the first person they chose to fill the post, when it started in 2000, was Jean Ziegler. The former Swiss Socialist politician was a man they could trust: In 1989, he announced to the world the creation of the Muammar Gaddafi Human Rights Prize.
The award spread propaganda for its namesake, and elevated his ideological allies. Recipients include Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. In 2002, the prize went to convicted French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy — and to Jean Ziegler himself.
From 2000 to 2008, Ziegler’s UN reports and probes turned a blind eye to the world’s hungry. Instead he attacked America, the West, capitalism and Israel. The human rights council applauded him, and repeatedly renewed his mandate. Only because of term limits did they replace him in 2008 with De Schutter, who praises and emulates his predecessor.
De Schutter’s consistent argument is that if there is hunger, Western countries are to blame. His attacks on international trade are so ideologically extreme that even Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization and a member of the French Socialist party, criticized De Schutter’s approach for threatening to drive food prices higher and “exacerbating the negative impacts on poor consumers.”
This is a great piece, please go read it all. It lays out the ugly truth about Marxism. Marxists always attack the successful. They say it is to help the poor, the down trodden, the weak, but if they truly wanted to help those people, they would help their nations emulate the West. Instead, they seek to destroy those nations that actually have respect for human rights. Again, the reality is that Marxism is evil, and all the bastard “Ism” children of Marxism, Communism, Stalinism, ,Lenninism, Maoiusm, Socialism, are evil as well. They are the enemies of mankind, never forget that!
There are several nations I would like to visit, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, and Japan being some. But, if I ever visit Japan, I will avoid taking a bath at all costs. Why? Well, Bill Quick explains that baths seem to be dangerous in Japan
Three times more Japanese die in bathtubs than car wrecks.
Japan’s health ministry is to launch an investigation into bath-time fatalities after it was estimated that 14,000 people die every year in the tub – three times as many as those who died in car accidents.
According to the figures, 4,612 people died as a result of traffic accidents across the nation in 2011.
That’s funny. I’d always assumed that a bunch of folks that could build such safe vehicles would have that whole ‘tub of warm water’ thing under control.
But, no. And guess who might just have to step in?…
Authorities are being urged to draw up guidelines on how to take a bath safely, encouraging people to avoid excessive changes in temperatures, gradually and carefully soaking oneself in hot water and drinking lots of fluids.
Well, I guess this ruins my fantasy of being bathed by beautiful Japanese women! DAMN!
Leave it to Stacy McCain to, ah, BUST the BIG stories, MILK them, and keep us all ABREAST of the key issues facing us
Canadians are in an uproar — one might even say they’ve gotten their panties in a wad — because of the photo above, taken by a 24-year-old university student in British Columbia:
Sooraya Graham produced the image and presented it earlier this year for a class assignment as part of her fine arts degree at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. . . .
Some politically correct student busybodies were offended by the photo and removed it from display without securing anyone’s permission.
“I have a lot to express,” Graham said in an interview Thursday, explaining she wanted to remind people that Muslim women wear undergarments too.
“Even though some people want to silence those thoughts or make them go away, we live in Canada where as long as we’re not hurting another individual we have that right to express ourselves.”
Click on over, lots more at the link
China, Canada Reach Quick Deals On Oil, Uranium – Hot Air
Last month we discussed the rather alarming news that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was planning a trip to China to discuss possible natural resources deals with the economic superpower. It seemed no coincidence that the trip was announced close on the heels of Barack Obama’s decision to kick the can down the road on the Keystone XL pipeline yet again. But at that time, I retained some hope that perhaps this was just a warning siren to Obama which would remind him that Canada had plenty of other options should we decide not to do business with them.
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Apparently Harper hasn’t cared much for what he’s been hearing out of Washington and found a very willing ear across the Pacific because it seems that some deals have been struck already.
China and Canada declared Thursday that bilateral relations have reached “a new level” following a series of multibillion-dollar trade and business agreements to ship additional Canadian petroleum, uranium and other products to the Asian superpower.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Chinese leadership said Thursday the economic co-operation agreements – and billions of dollars in new private-sector deals – signed by the two countries over the past few days are unprecedented and will open the door to additional trade and investment.
Harper announced Thursday, following meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, that the countries have struck an agreement that will allow Canadian uranium companies to “substantially increase exports to China.”
“We expect to see similar success stories in Canadian energy exports to China, once infrastructure is in place.”
Harper has said building pipelines to the West Coast – such as the proposed Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline and a separate one for liquefied natural gas – is a national priority as Canada looks to ship its vast resources to Asia.
This just gets better and better, doesn’t it? Not only do we have to keep an eye on the Canadians building a shorter pipeline to their western coast to ship all of their oil overseas, but now they’re going to aggressively up the ante on delivering uranium to the Chinese. Oh, I know… you probably think I’m being an old worry wort, right? I mean, China would only use the fuel for peaceful, energy production purposes and would never “lose track” of any of it, right?
Yet again we see that elections matter, and decisions coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. can have both immediate and long term effects not only here at home, but across the oceans as well. Harper’s deals wont be finalized until the Canadian legislature approves them, but they would be foolish indeed to turn it down with no assurances of a market in the U.S. There was never any doubt that Canada would pursue their own best economic and national interests and find a buyer for their resources. It was only a question of who would strike the right deal. And – again – I do not place any blame on Harper for this. He has to look out for Canada’s interests first, not ours. The fault here lies with the White House for playing politics with such a critical issue.
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