Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Even the National Post Understands Harper Lost Canada's Security Council Bid

Once again Stephen Harper has embarrassed Canada.   Apparently leaving us in the gutter as a global warming pariah wasn't enough for Furious Leader.   Getting the heave-ho from our supposedly secret base in Dubai didn't help but for Canada to lose its bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council - and to Portugal at that - really burst Harper's bubble.

Naturally the Prime Monster wasn't happy at pulling the plug on the UN bid and, true to form, he wasted no time in trying to pin the blame on anyone and everyone else, starting with Michael Ignatieff.    But even the National Post, Harper's in-house rag, wasn't able to swallow that one.   Columnist Don Martin didn't hesitate to give credit where credit's due - to Stephen Harper himself:


"To give two European countries the temporary seats and deny Canada its rightful claim to one of the two-year chairs is a vote of non-confidence in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s foreign policy.



Candid and plugged-in diplomats will tell you the seat is meaningless unless you’ve got a clear agenda to advocate before the council. Other than Canada’s strong pro-Israel position, it lacks a clear vision about its role in the world beyond the Afghanistan deployment’s termination next summer.

...But to withdraw to Portugal? A bankrupt country of negligible impact on the international security stage? Whose officials thought Canada should win?

The government blame game will shift to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for his trash-talking of Canada’s bid, but that’s bogus finger-pointing.  For a myriad of reasons, each only known to the voting ambassador of the 190 ballot-box countries, the UN General Assembly decided Canada was not worthy of a coveted seat.

...[The]Harper government who thought it had strong foreign affairs credentials —  lost a global vote of confidence in its performance."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are many reasons why Canada lost this seat and it's amusing to see the barely literate and various other Conservatives spin this one.

I wonder what happened to all those cries about putting Canada on the World map once more...

I was listening to Mulroney fart-catcher L. Ian McDo on the radio blame this on the EU...

I wonder why all the Connies are angry at this after deriding the UN for so many years...


A quick peak over at Canada's special ed class reveals that:
- Arabs (read Muslims) are happy at this and that we should have sided with Israel more... (Well given that HarperCons seem to be Israel's official fluffer, CS maybe right).

- Of course they blame Iggy (too bad the anointed one seems to be a Harper clone when it comes to foreign policy)

- Oh and blame Africa

- There is a complain about Virgin Mobile (Sara Landriault seems too stupid to actually read terms and conditions)


- Unambiguously Ambidextrous continues with teh stupid...

- Dodo cheers on the terminally idiotic Ezra Levant and offer to get down on her knees for him (I'm glad she left out the description of love rain)


- Dr Roy shows, once again, his complete lack of scientific understanding on CO2 and completely fuck's up whatever coherent thought process by... well being himself...

- Sandy Crux seems off her medications again...



When did Canadians become so ignorant?

The Mound of Sound said...

Lorne Grunter has written the definitive tory loser talking points on this one. The UN is shit. All the members of the UN are shit. The Security Council is shit - dysfunctional, meaningless shit. We should be grateful those shit countries didn't vote for us. All those shit countries are an affront to our dignity and don't deserve us anyway.

Of course Grunter never did explain why his Furious Leader has such a fetish for shit.

Anonymous said...

In other news, free-market Harpercons are all up in arms at UAE asking landing rights in Canada. Not that they are not pursued this for years...

Something about corporate welfare for Air Canada and protecting their rights...
I wonder how they can exist with such torturous illogic...

Did you expect anything less from Gunter?

Anonymous said...

I'm a little worried about the HarperCons - no one is mentioning the deficit... They could be proud of setting a record there.

Beijing York said...

What shocks me is that many reports, especially international ones, remind us that Harper has only been in power for FIVE years.

That's a f*ck of a lot of damage he has done in a very short time.

As for the deficit, $11 billion per year to dismantle services, fire experts, drive the economy to the ground and ruin our international reputation.

w/v= hurriase (as hurry up and move your asses opposition)