According to the Toronto Star the kunye leml (a simpleton, shlmiel, nebech, shmendrick, a shmo see Leo Rosten's book Hooray for Yiddish) Peter MacKay, aping good Israeli, USA and EU bullshit lines said this morning:
"The government of Canada welcomes the leadership of President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad in establishing a government that Canada and the rest of the international community can work with," ... .
"In light of the new Palestinian government's commitment to non-violence, recognition of Israel and acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, and in recognition of the opportunity for a renewal of peace efforts, Canada will provide assistance to the new Palestinian government."
Good to know that the Harper government is finally seeking talking points from other places instead of just endlessly mimicking the Bush D.C. tripe. But, unfortunately, as could be expected, I guess, still no real Canadian made foreign policy, just the stale awful trotted around by the current US administration and complacently supported by the discredited EU, in this case, who should bloody well know better.
A "new non-elected Palestinian government" Canada "can work with". My foot. Who the fucking hell would work with Canada on anything? A country that now only makes bad policy decisions and doesn't even know they've done it.
The Harper government of Canada seems to take every opportunity to demonstrate to the world, contrary to Mr. Harper's empty schoolboy lecturing in South America, about Canada offering some undefined strange path, not Venezuelan nor American (the Canadian muddle model instead, maybe?), that we add nothing constructive to any significant international situation and certainly can't be counted on for any independent leadership initiatives.
Boy, Mike Pearson must be turning over in his Gatineau Hills grave, not to mention George Ignatieff, Michael's dad.
I haven't forgotten the sickening brown nose reputation, Harper ensured for Canada, by being the first so-called democratic Western entity, to cut off funding to the newly elected Palestinian government on March 26, 2006, a full 10 days before the USA and EU fulfilled their destructive promise.
It is good the little funding we provide has been restored.
Again, to begin with, it was a national disgrace it was ever cut off. However there is a problem with giving it to the discredited and weak fumbler Abbas - the Israeli boy so-to-speak - and, I would have thought, if there is even a small modicum of talent left at the External Affairs Department, someone might have thought of a way to demonstrate Canadian independence from the stupid US/EU box and included all Palestinians and not just the Abbasers in any announcement of our small amount of funding.
Wishful thinking, I guess, here in Ottawa.
God, the civil servants working at External Affairs, now, must be embarrassed having Peter MacKay, maybe the klutziest klutz person (Stockwell Day excluded, of course) in the Harper government of Canada, as minister. To think, Mike Pearson was once the Minister for 9 years.
Me dreaming of the future, short term, of course:
Interviewee: "No I didn't work at External Affairs during the Harper period."
Interviewer: "Where were you, then? "There is no mention of that period on your C.V."
Interviewee: "I'd hoped I wouldn't have to tell you. I think my C.V. is very strong even without mentioning what I was up to during that brief time."
Interviewer: "Yes it is very impressive. But we must itemize everything from the time you left university and there is this short gap!"
Interviewee: "O.K., that short period of time, I hadn't specifically allocated, was the time I did in Kingston for fucking a moose in Confederation Square."
Interviewer; " Well that's alright, then. Not too bad. We are worried you know, about getting anyone who may have been in the External Affairs Department when Peter MacKay was there. As you know he was such a schmuck, pardon my Yiddish, that we have to be very very careful. So a moose you say, interesting. We've had about 10 others who were also doing time down at KP about the same time you were there. One was in for doing a wolverine, also in the Square. We hired him immediately. But a moose is pretty impressive, also, so I think you're short listed."
Shit what have we come to, eh!
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