Way back in the '80's then PM Lyin' Brian Mulroney created the International Center for Human Rights and Democracy. Mulroney's plan was that the agency would, although government funded, be a non-partisan tool for the promotion of human rights and democracy around the world.
Old Brian had a lot of plans. While most of them involved the exchange of cash in unmarked envelopes, every once in a while he came up with an idea that bought him a bit of cred in your more progressive constituencies.
He was a vocal proponent of the Boycott South Africa movement to dislodge apartheid, for example.
The Center for Human Rights and Democracy was another example.
Turn the clock ahead twenty-five years and you've got a brave new world. Apartheid in South Africa is a relic of the past. Do-gooders these days are more concerned about apartheid in Israel.
And in Ottawa you've got a brand new gang of cut-throat conservatives who aren't interested in making friends in progressive circles. So when the Harper gang realized that there were people, high up people in the Center for Human Rights and Democracy, who dared voice support for critics of Israel's occupation of the "disputed" occupied territories, the fur flew.
Harper parachuted in a few senior managers who could be counted on to faithfully parrot any and all Netanyahu talking points. Chaos ensued.
Having successfully crippled the Center for Human Rights and Democracy, today the Harper gang announced the next logical step. They're going to put it out of its misery altogether.
Foreign Minister John Baird made the announcement. Last time we heard from him he was touring the Holy Land with his personal challabist Rabbi in tow.
Today was a good day for the Rabbi.
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