tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2741472609094834893..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Ghost of Pierre Trudeau Hovers Over the SonThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-57812779743484503682016-03-07T13:58:53.401-08:002016-03-07T13:58:53.401-08:00It's really none of Ottawa's business if C...It's really none of Ottawa's business if Canadians want to boycott Israel. That is a Canadian right.Like Lorne, I had hoped Trudeau would not support this malicious, rights violator rhetoric.But he has. I fear this may be a harbinger of things to come. Trudeau comes across as spineless with this decision. I guess guts is not inherited. Pierre Trudeau had guts, his son doesn't. How does he plan to implement this motion. Is he going to have government people show up at an organization, a group or even an individual who is supporting the bds against Israel. What's he going to do, tell them all to shut up.If compromising with the Tories authoritarian,malicious, motions and ideas is the road Trudeau is travelling on, then for me, as a sophisticated, progressive Prime Minister, he is a write off. If he can violate a Canadian right as written in The Charter of Rights and Freedom, then Democracy means nothing to him. Where have we seen that before? Maybe once again we will be fighting to keep our democracy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-20865541150211259002016-03-07T11:02:27.810-08:002016-03-07T11:02:27.810-08:00This has to be one of my most consistent sources o...This has to be one of my most consistent sources of frustration, Mound. In my local paper, whenever there is the faintest criticism of Israel, a stout defence from Jewish letter-writers inevitably follows, conflating, as the Conservative resolution does, such criticism with anti-Semitism. I have always found such a reaction unseemly, disingenuous and reactionary, and I had hoped the new government would rise above such denigration of legitimate criticism. I was obviously naive in that hope.Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.com