Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada

4 November 2011

The Editor, EMBASSY, Ottawa

Sir:

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Harper: Commonwealth progressƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ was predictable as night would follow day.

What was embarrassing was how he failed to lead the Commonwealth of Nations as the Pied Piper to scuttle the Commonwealth Summit to be held in Colombo inƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 2013.

If domestic politics is what influenced Prime Minister Harper to take this strong negative stance against Sri Lanka to appease the Tamil Diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area who gave him the loot of 15 ridings to be taken away from the Liberals at the last federal election, he is still a winner, as he could tell his Tamil constituents, ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Hey! I tried, and tried real hard to get the other Commonwealth ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ nations to fall behind me to boycott Sri LankaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s Commonwealth Summit in 2013 .ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚

On the same token, if honesty plays in Prime Minister HarperƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s foreign policy that democracy, human rights and freedom is what counts for Canada to distinguish between our friends and enemies, then he should break away immediately all diplomatic ties with our neighbor, the United States, which led NATOƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s massive gun-burst on democracy, human rights and freedom in Libya, and of course Iraq and Afghanistan prior to that where their work is yet to end.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ And we all know that attack on Libya, just like the invasion of Iraq was based on well-crafted lies destroying infrastructures that Libya put in place with years of hard work which Canada was part of in its destruction, and no doubt we willƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  now seek contracts for Canadian companies to go into Libya to rebuild that destroyed oil producing country where there is a lot of money to take. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ This is strange Canadian honesty and strange economics to help keep our industries afloat in hard economic times.

That is where the rub is Canada!ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  And Prime Minister Stephen Harper should announce that he will boycott the Colombo’s Commonwealth Summit in 2013 now so that we can be sparedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  of his song and dance routine on the subject which is getting a bit tedious.

Asoka Weerasinghe