Back in the bad old "Big Steve" era, thinking Canadians would cringe when Bullshittin' Baird used to go on about how Canada punches above its weight, blah blah blah.
Now we tweet above our weight instead. Usually, nobody gives a shit, but last week our good pals in the Saudi dictatorship took umbrage.
Poof!
Fifteen thousand Saudi students paying extravagant "foreign student" tuition, gone from our universities.
Canada's biggest industrial export contract in history at risk.
Prospects of further lucrative contracts from the KSA?
Nil.
The response from Canada so far has been to double down on a really dubious idea; that you can cosy up to repressive regimes to take their money, and then turn around and criticize them for being repressive.
Which is par for the course for the team of Dumb and Dumber running the show in Ottawa. To hear them tell the tale, nothing is ever going to prevent us from tweeting for human rights.
We're very selective of who we champion in those tweets, of course. If you're a victim of Bad Vlad's machinations in Ukraine, hey, we've got your back! We'll at least tweet our support, if nothing else.
If you're a Romani victim of Ukrainian racists, not so much.
If you're a Palestinian in Gaza, forget about it.
But that's Canada, eh?
We can't figure out the mysteries of providing clean water to Indian reservations.
We can't run an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women.
Hell, we can't even figure out how to pay our civil servants on time!
But, we are absolutely top-shelf, top-drawer, top 'o the heap when it comes to lecturing others on how to manage their affairs.
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