{"id":101867,"date":"2020-05-02T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101867"},"modified":"2020-05-02T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:09:35","slug":"canadian-pm-and-sinhalese-tamil-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/02\/canadian-pm-and-sinhalese-tamil-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN PM AND SINHALESE\/TAMIL NEW YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rear Admiral ( Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

It is observed that in Canada, on the occasion of Sinhalese\nand Tamil new year, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, extended his\nexclusive good wishes to just the Tamils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0There are more than three hundred thousand Sinhalese living in Canada and in contrast to his predecessors the Prime Minister deliberately ignored the Sinhalese and thought it fit to confine\/focus his best wishes only to the Tamils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slighting of the Sinhalese by Trudeau is not an oversight because it is learnt that on previous occasions too he has in effect been advised to the contrary by the then Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Daniel Jean in this regard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sinhalese in Canada have naturally learnt not to pay any\nheed to any type of “wishes” of Justin Trudeau mainly because they\nare aware that the majority of the Canadians do not approve of this type of\ndiscriminatory attitude of their Prime Minister .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone knows why Justin Trudeau expresses his solidarity to Tamils in Canada. It is not due to a matter of any principal but simply because the Tamils have a strong voter base. The irony is that he has been apprised that the Tamils in Sri Lanka are fighting with the Sinhalese over the last few decades to realise their dream of \u00a0Tamil Homeland in the North of Sri Lanka. So he is very careful not to “antagonize” the Tamils in Canada by conveying his “wishes” to Sinhalese fearing that such an act would ultimately deprive him of Tamil votes in his next election. It explains his chronic allergy to the indigenous people in Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0It is reiterated that the Sinhalese in Canada could not care less about any type of wishes extended or not by Trudeau. But being the Prime Minister of the country he should know that in actual fact the Tamils are not fighting with Sinhalese in Sri Lanka for a separate state.\u00a0 Only the separatist elements, backed by terrorists, thrive for mono-ethnic, separate, racist Tamil State called Elam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 50% of the Tamil population in Sri Lanka live peacefully amongst Sinhalese in the south. Decent and educated Tamils in any part of the world are not against Sinhalese.\u00a0 Only the Tamils with separatist ideology hate the Sinhalese because for thousands of years they have fought and will fight even in future, to protect the unitary nature of their constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Trudeau should be aware that slighting the Sinhalese in Canada could only appease the separatist and not the decent Tamils in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the \u00a0Head of a State, he should first study about Sri Lanka, the 2500 years of history of the Sinhalese, their rich heritage and culture and their advanced civilization reflected in some such as the unimaginably “modern” man-made tanks which are more like oceans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When talking about reservoirs, it is prudent to mention that Canadian Engineers who built the Maduruoya Dam in Sri Lanka using the funds of the people of Canada (CIDA) in the 1980s had marvelled at the technology possessed by ancient Sinhalese because when they located the ideal site to build the sluice gate using the latest technology including laser equipment, a nearly 2000 old Bisokotuwa (sluice gate) had already been built there exactly at the same spot. So the people you are trying to sideline are descendants of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The hospitality of Sinhalese is legendary.\u00a0 Sinhalese are the only race in the world who greet people by clasping the hands together and with the greeting “Ayubowan”, \u00a0meaning “may you live long “. Incidentally everyone in the world, including Donald trump does that today, because of the very hygienic quality of this gesture,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

even though they may not yet be used to making the wish that\nthe recipient “may live long”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0As the leader of the country, Trudeau should take cognizance of all the national festivals of all ethnic groups living in his country. The Sinhalese and Tamil new year is not something of a fancy dress parade in which Trudeau delights, but everything to do with the movements of the planets and long-established traditions of which he seems to be fully ignorant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more Justin Trudeau cares to learn about the Sinhalese and their true nature, their culture and their civilization, I am sure, the more he would repent for slighting the Sinhalese in Canada over their main festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For sure, the lure of Canada is its beautiful quality and\nits immigration policy.  For sure, the lure of the Tamil vote is Trudeau’s\nbane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rear Admiral ( Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera It is observed that in Canada, on the occasion of Sinhalese and Tamil new year, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, extended his exclusive good wishes to just the Tamils. \u00a0There are more than three hundred thousand Sinhalese living in Canada and in contrast to his predecessors the Prime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101867","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=101867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}