{"id":101138,"date":"2020-04-14T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101138"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T00:16:17","slug":"canadas-prime-minister-justine-trudeau-insults-this-sinhalese-sri-lankan-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/14\/canadas-prime-minister-justine-trudeau-insults-this-sinhalese-sri-lankan-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Prime Minister Justine Trudeau insults this Sinhalese Sri Lankan-Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grover Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

14 April 2020 (Sinhala & Tamil\nNew Year Day)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Ottawa, On.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Editor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I, as a Sinhalese-Sri Lankan-Canadian finally got\nit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his approach, to show the world Canada’s arrogant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New World Order,  clinically and surgically removed Sri\nLanka’s historical tradition by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

dissecting Sinhala and Tamil New Year <\/strong>celebrations\ninto two by his statement, “Today, Tamils in Canada and around\nthe world celebrate Puthandu, and welcome the beginning of a new\nyear.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No such courtesy towards me and my Sinhalese-Canadian\nbrothers and sisters by wishing us,  “Today, Sinhalese in Canada and\naround the world celebrate Sinhala Avurudu<\/strong>, and welcome the beginning\nof a New Year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got it Canada.  Your Justine Trudeau’s Liberal\nGovernment just slapped me with this racist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

innuendo.  When I arrived in Canada\non October 16, 1970,  from London, England, on an\ninvitation by the National Museums Corporation to help the design team as\nHead, Thematic Research Section, on the renovation of the Victoria\nMemorial Museum in Ottawa with their 15 brand new exhibition Hall, I came\nbringing with me my rich Sinhalese Heritage culture, which included the\nannual Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebration <\/strong>every April.\nPrime Minister Justine Trudeau has just dissected that one event of\nharmony between the two ethnic peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that it has done was to show Canada’s hypocrisy when she harps on “reconciliation” between the\u00a0two communities which were at war for 30 long bloody- years because the separatist Tamils wanted\u00a0their\u00a0mono-ethnic, separate, racist Tamil\u00a0state,\u00a0Eelam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I hope the Sri Lankan Government and the Canadian\nSinhalese populous will note this hypocrisy by Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me inform Prime Minister Justine Trudeau and his Liberal\nGovernment.  You may have<\/p>\n\n\n\n

slapped me Ladies and Gentlemen of the Liberal Party of\nCanada, but I will ever remain Asoka Weerasinghe, the proud Sinhalese Sri\nLankan-Canadian who arrived with a rich Sinhalese cultural heritage in his\nbaggage, on October 16, 1970, and no one is going to take that away from\nme, as I am determined to walk tall, whether you are the lovers of\nthe  Sri Lankan Tamil-Canadian community or not, and not us, Sinhalese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is how the cookie crumbles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka Weerasinghe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grover Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 14 April 2020 (Sinhala & Tamil New Year Day) Editor (Letters)THE OTTAWA CITIZENOttawa, On. Dear Editor: So I, as a Sinhalese-Sri Lankan-Canadian finally got it.   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in his approach, to show the world Canada’s arrogant New World Order,  clinically and surgically removed Sri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}