As every good Canuck knows, nobody does rule of law rulier or lawier than we do. Look up "rule of law" in the encyclopedia and there's a picture of a little beaver waving the Maple Leaf.
That's us!
"Rule of law" has become a get-out-of-jail-free card for those who make our laws and rules.
Wanna slap Meng Wanzhou in the slammer for a couple years to disabuse the Yellow Peril of their fantasies about 5G dominance? Rule of law! We had no choice!
A jerk-off US hedge-fund titan loots Sears Canada for billions and leaves 16,000 Canadian pensioners in the lurch? Rule of law! We had no choice!
Another US hedge-fund titan adds billions to the value of CP Rail by killing over five thousand excellent Canadian working class jobs. We are so grateful we thank Bill Ackman for making this Canadian icon more efficient, and gift him a couple of billions as a token of our gratitude.
We had no choice... rule of law!
But nothing throws into relief our attachment to rule of law quite like the Wet'suwet'en debacle. At least we've cleared up one of the great mysteries of this rule-of-law juggernaut.
When we talk about rule of law, we talk about the rule of White Man's Law.
Yup, all of Justin's vacuous twaddle about reconciliation and mutual respect and nation-to-nation dialogue is going down the shitter even as I type these words.
Now he's asking our FN neighbours, living with the legacy of 400 years of betrayal and broken promises, to be patient. At least he's being even-handed; that's also what he's asking of the non-natives who have been inconvenienced by the rail blockade for a couple weeks.
We are, after all, a fair and just nation, governed by the rule of law...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Canada urged to get tough with China
Colin Robertson has an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail today informing us that China's been bullying us, and it's high time that Ottawa muscle up.
That's the kind of militaristic malarkey one would expect from a "vice-president and fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute." CGAI, a registered Canadian "charity," is essentially a lobby group funded by the US defense industry. It works tirelessly to convince whichever party is in power that Canada is bedevilled by existential threats, meaning Russia and China, and our very sovereignty is at risk if we don't throw gobs of money to the US armaments industry.
To convince the party in power to indulge such foolishness, it helps to get the public onside, and that's where Canada's newspaper of record comes in. Its role is to provide a platform for the kind of confrontational propaganda we see today. A casual perusal of the list of "fellows" at CGAI shows that Canada's elite opinion-shapers are already convinced of the righteousness of their scare-mongering, but it never hurts to get the rabble on board.
What Robertson wants the rabble to get riled up about today is the ongoing Meng Wanzhou hostage taking. That was a Canadian first strike. China retaliated by taking two citizens and our canola producers hostage. That's where things stand, and that's where they'll stay stuck, at least till Mr. Trudeau mans up and decides we're gonna fight back!
Robertson invokes the "rule of law" a couple of times in the course of his article. This mysterious phenomenon is frequently trotted out by the apostles of American Exceptionalism and their acolytes in the me-too nations, sometimes called the "Five Eyes." Contrary to what you might think if you took the term literally, abiding by the "rule of law" in no way precludes the Nations of Virtue running roughshod over international law as we favour recalcitrant countries with crippling economic sanctions, regime change operations, and when all else fails, bomb lesser civilisations back to the stone age.
Robertson carefully avoids any mention of Meng Wanzhou's original crime; allegations that her employer, Huawei, violated US sanctions against Iran. Would the rule-of-law fetishists please explain by what rules of which laws it is America's right to dictate to the world who is permitted to do business with whom?
The long and the short of the Huawei debacle is that PM Fluffy, in his virtue-signalling meanderings through the meadows of international relations, managed to step in a particularly pungent cow-pie. Now he's got shit on his colourful socks and doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't need to get tougher.
He needs to get smarter.
That's the kind of militaristic malarkey one would expect from a "vice-president and fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute." CGAI, a registered Canadian "charity," is essentially a lobby group funded by the US defense industry. It works tirelessly to convince whichever party is in power that Canada is bedevilled by existential threats, meaning Russia and China, and our very sovereignty is at risk if we don't throw gobs of money to the US armaments industry.
To convince the party in power to indulge such foolishness, it helps to get the public onside, and that's where Canada's newspaper of record comes in. Its role is to provide a platform for the kind of confrontational propaganda we see today. A casual perusal of the list of "fellows" at CGAI shows that Canada's elite opinion-shapers are already convinced of the righteousness of their scare-mongering, but it never hurts to get the rabble on board.
What Robertson wants the rabble to get riled up about today is the ongoing Meng Wanzhou hostage taking. That was a Canadian first strike. China retaliated by taking two citizens and our canola producers hostage. That's where things stand, and that's where they'll stay stuck, at least till Mr. Trudeau mans up and decides we're gonna fight back!
Robertson invokes the "rule of law" a couple of times in the course of his article. This mysterious phenomenon is frequently trotted out by the apostles of American Exceptionalism and their acolytes in the me-too nations, sometimes called the "Five Eyes." Contrary to what you might think if you took the term literally, abiding by the "rule of law" in no way precludes the Nations of Virtue running roughshod over international law as we favour recalcitrant countries with crippling economic sanctions, regime change operations, and when all else fails, bomb lesser civilisations back to the stone age.
Robertson carefully avoids any mention of Meng Wanzhou's original crime; allegations that her employer, Huawei, violated US sanctions against Iran. Would the rule-of-law fetishists please explain by what rules of which laws it is America's right to dictate to the world who is permitted to do business with whom?
The long and the short of the Huawei debacle is that PM Fluffy, in his virtue-signalling meanderings through the meadows of international relations, managed to step in a particularly pungent cow-pie. Now he's got shit on his colourful socks and doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't need to get tougher.
He needs to get smarter.
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