" ‘I want to offer my sincere thanks to the government of China for sharing these two pandas, symbols of peace and friendship, with all Canadians,’ Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday, moments after welcoming the black and white bears on the tarmac at Toronto's Pearson airport.” [1]
The two giant Pandas arrived at the airport to an animal
farm style welcome, they were greeted by “dignitaries” a band played the
national anthem and the right honourable PM was there to greet them. We are
told their names are Er Shun and Da Mao. Our great leader had this to say on panda-ring
to the Chinese.
“Over the coming years these pandas will help us learn more about one
another while serving as a reminder of our deepening relationship, a
relationship based on mutual respect and growing collaboration.” Stephen
Harper [2]
I guess “growing collaboration” with a communist
dictatorship is right up Harper’s alley. One wonders how he can have “mutual
respect” with a bloodthirsty dictatorship that uses, torture, slave labour, oppresses
its own people and has forced abortions. [3]
As a matter of fact on the same day that Stephen Harper was
all dressed up to welcome his two pandas there was a story on Lifesite news
March 25, 2013 by John Jalsevac headlined: “7-month-old
baby forcibly aborted on March 22 in China: graphic photo circulates”[4]
The article went on to state: “Ms. Lü, a 33-year-old Chinese
woman whose husband reported the case and released the photograph, was
reportedly pregnant with an over-quota child, an illegal act under China’s
One-Child Policy.”
This is a horrendous story, and makes one wonder how Stephen
Harper can say Canada
has “a relationship based on mutual respect” with this brutal dictatorship. I
am sure most Canadians must feel revulsion that Harper is including them in his
obnoxious statements to the Chinese.
Still, one should not be surprised anymore by the actions of
this “man” and many of his MPs. Mr. Harper and a number of his MPs and other
opposition politicians voted against finding out when human life begins. Now
this collection of anti-democratic hypocrites are attempting to suppress MP
Mark Warawa’s Motion 408 on sex selection abortion.
This is the state of parliamentary “democracy” in Canada today.
But hey, we have two pandas to keep us happy and contented in Harperland and
they are only going to cost us “10 million dollars.” [5]
They should billet the pandas in parliament for according to Mr. Harper “these pandas will
help us learn more about one another” so they would be right at home in
Harper’s political zoo.
Stephen J. Gray
March 26, 2013.
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