Why Tamils are golden but Palestinians are shit in Harper's Canada

Long story short, Harper's next election is going to depend way more on Tamils than on Palestinians to get the Harper gang re-elected.

The new Canadian position vis-a-vis the Tamils isn't much of a secret.

The Tamils were not that long ago "terrorists."

The Palestinians have always been and will always be "terrorists."

Both peoples are struggling with an occupying power that refuses to recognize their sovereignty.

But the difference is that Canada's Tamil community can mobilize tens of thousands of voters in the next Canadian election.

When you hear John Baird lauding Canada's "principles," this is what he is talking about.

The curious case of Canada's Sri Lanka human rights crusade

I always thought the Tamils and the Palestinians had a lot in common.

The big dogs in Likud think so too. That's why Israel has always been comfortable backing the government of Sri Lanka in its battle with Tamil separatists.

So you would automatically assume that Israel and her very best friend in the world would be on the same page vis-a-vis the Tamil-Sri Lanka dispute.

You'd be wrong.

FM Baird has been so extraordinarily strident in his denunciations of Sri Lanka that he has found himself in the foreign press; a rarity for Canada's lightweight Foreign Minister.

There would seem to be a massive contradiction between how the Harper government sees the Tamil struggle as compared to the Palestinian struggle.

What could possibly account for that?

Might it be the tens of thousands of Tamils living in key Toronto ridings, ridings that are critical to Harper's re-election?

Just wondering.