Back in '07 Canada extended honorary citizenship to Aung San Suu Kyi. She was, at the time, the darling of the international do-gooder crowd for her principled stand against the Burmese military junta.
In the decade since, she's morphed into chief spokesperson for that same junta, and has understandably fallen out of favour in busy-body circles. My hunch is that her personal values probably haven't shifted that much - she's just ten years older and more aware of how fond she is of keeping her head attached to her body. Alas, her reticence to denounce the generals who hold her life in their hands has cost her those fair-weather political friends in Canada.
The House of Commons, peopled as it is by nice folks who've never had to worry about generals or keeping their heads attached to their bodies, has this week rescinded that honorary Canadian citizenship.
Virtue un-signalling?..
Or just more of the same?
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