Showing posts with label foreign affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign affairs. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Who Is The Bigger Security Risk?

Funny how the Liberals have been railing against Bernier and calling Couillard a security risk, but nothing is said about Khawaja, now on trial as a suspected terrorist!

Did you know he was on contract with the foreign affairs department in 2004 when he was arrested? I sure didn't!



So, I ask you, who is the bigger security risk? Khawaja or Couillard? The Liberals have asked for a public enquiry into the Couillard affair, not a whisper about suspected terrorist Khawaja working for the foreign affairs department when they were in government.

What is wrong with the foreign affairs department? They have been leaking like a pregnant woman in her ninth month, they hire a suspected terrorist, and they leak emails that impact the US elections, they need to be investigated and the Liberal moles found and fired. The whole department is starting to stink. I know that Conservatives like to give the benefit of the doubt to public servants, but this department is getting out of hand.

Further to Khawaja, he used the Liberal government to help plot mass murder.

OTTAWA - Momin Khawaja secretly used his Department of Foreign Affairs e-mail account to plot the mass murder of hundreds of Britons in the name of radical Islam, court heard on the opening day of the Ottawa man's landmark terror trial.

The plot included possibly unleashing high explosives at London's most popular nightclub, Europe's biggest shopping centre and utilities in and around the British capital in 2004, according to the prosecution.

"Massive destruction and loss of life" would have resulted, Crown attorney David McKercher said in his opening statement.


Massive destruction and loss of life, and this guy worked in foreign affairs? Funny how CTV fails to mention that in this article. They feel free to pillar Bernier over a girlfriend though.

I think the Liberals have their priorities all messed up. They hire suspected terrorists, and that's okay, but a Minister who has a shady girlfriend needs a full public enquiry? Get real! Or, as real as you can with your phony outrage about phony scandals!

Thursday, June 12, 2008

He's Coming To Canada.

Who are the "Canadian Press"? They sure aren't unbiased reporters of the news. Take this article for example.

McCain coming to Canada for free trade speech

The Canadian Press

OTTAWA -- Canada appears destined to be dragged into the centre of the U.S. presidential debate once again.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain has sought and received an invitation to Ottawa to give a speech next week on free trade.

The Vietnam war hero's presence in Canada's national capital and his choice of subject matter is bound to revive controversy over the so-called NAFTA-gate affair, which embarrassed his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, earlier this year.


Oh, poor Obama, he might be embassassed. Cry me a river of crocodile tears. Doesn't McCain have a daughter living in Canada? Wouldn't that be nice to mention?

Tattersall said the club has checked with three historians and, as far as they can tell, this will be the first time a U.S. presidential nominee has come to Canada mid-campaign.


Oh, so he's making a special trip to reassure Canadians that he will not mess with a trade agreement that provides 80% of us with jobs, and this is a no-no because noone else has ever done that before?

McCain's choice of topic and venue is unlikely to be coincidental. Even if the nominee himself makes no mention of NAFTA-gate, the planeload of American reporters travelling with him will undoubtedly make the link, prompting yet more grief for Obama.

His appearance may also provoke some additional awkwardness for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.


How many times can you mention NAFTA-gate in one article? Why should it provide any awkwardness for the PM? We have the big stick when it comes to free trade, it's called oil!

For Harper, any reminder of the sorry episode is bound to be awkward since it originated with his own chief of staff, Ian Brodie.

Brodie told some CTV reporters during the budget lockup that it was rival Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton whose team had signalled she had no intention of following through on her tough talk about renegotiating NAFTA. While Brodie apparently got the candidate wrong, his comments set reporters on the trail of the story, which eventually led to the leaked memo.....

....Harper, determined to prove his government was not intentionally interfering, ordered Canada's top public servant, Kevin Lynch, to conduct an inquiry into the leak.

Lynch cleared Brodie and Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to Washington, last month. He blamed Foreign Affairs bureaucrats for disseminating the memo too widely to maintain secrecy.


They finally at the end of the article get around to stating that NAFTA-gate, was the fault of foreign affairs. Funny how those Foreign Affairs bureaucrats keep popping up. Could they be stirring the pot, first with Brodie and then with a Minister of the Government? Are they a little too powerful? They remind me of the Human Rights Commissions, over stepping their bounds to keep the little kingdom they run safe from Canadians. Someone's head at foreign affairs needs to roll. Or maybe, we should FIRE THEM ALL.