{"id":122515,"date":"2022-01-31T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122515"},"modified":"2022-01-31T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:30:12","slug":"bill-104-tamil-genocide-education-week-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/31\/bill-104-tamil-genocide-education-week-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill 104 -Tamil Genocide Education Week Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\"> Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>1 February,&nbsp; 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hon. Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario<br>Office of the Premier<br>Legislative Building<br>Queens Park<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>M74 1A1<br>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:Doug.Ford@pc.ola.org\" target=\"_blank\">Doug.Ford@pc.ola.org<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dear Premier Doug Ford of the Province of Ontario<\/strong>\u00a0and your 29 Cabinet Ministers who voted for <strong>Bill 104<\/strong> supporting the <strong>Tamil Pox-Hoax Genocide Coalition<\/strong> <strong>of Fraudsters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Re: Bill 104- Tamil Genocide Education Week Act<\/strong> <strong>(May 11-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose you all recall your High School <strong><em>Sock-Hop<\/em><\/strong> evenings when you all danced to the Beatles Song, <strong>Hello\u2026Goodbye.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s my take on it, <strong>rejecting your Bill 104,<\/strong> which was an absolute lie, which makes all of you <strong><em> We are Holier than Thou &#8211; Oops! Liars.\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a Canadian citizen domiciled in Ottawa since 16 October 1970. And I am disappointed in all of you who voted for Bill 104 to make it Law\u00a0 after an arrogant display of not wanting to give a hearing to your Sinhalese-Canadian constituents who would be affected directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not democratic \u2026.not cricket\u2026.not kosher\u2026.a completely\u00a0 selective-ugly character of you Conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time I happened to be a card carrying member of your\nParty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You say \u2018Yes\u2019 and I say \u2018No\u2019<\/em><\/strong> <br><strong><em>You say \u2018Go\u2026go\u2026go\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>And I say \u2018Oh! No\u2026No\u2026No\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>You say \u2018Hello..Hello..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>We have done it for the Tamils<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>and say \u2018Goodbye and we must Go\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>But this Ottawa\u2019s Sinhalese-Canadian says,<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Hello, not yet. \u2018Hello\u2026Hello\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>I don\u2019t know why you say\u00a0 \u2018Goodbye\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>as I have not finished dealing with you lot<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>and I say \u2018Hello\u2026.Hello\u2026.don\u2019t Go\u2019.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>I don\u2019t know why you want\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>to say \u2018Goodbye\u2019, is it that Your<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>\u2018We are Holier than Thou\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Liars bubble has already\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>started to leak a stinky puke.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>So \u2018Hello..Hello\u2026Doug..don\u2019t go\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>So here\u2019s the final verdict on Premier of Ontario Doug Ford\u2019<\/strong><br>and that of your 29 Cabinet caucus at Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto, as published in<strong><em> An Edition of NP in the Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/strong>, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>January 26, 2022.\u00a0 It made me conclude that we Canadians are\u00a0<strong>Maestros-of-Genocide &#8211; no If\u2019s and no But\u2019s.\u00a0 And we have been sofor many, many moons.\u00a0 Going back to the days of Newfoundland\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>Beothuks, the last of them Shanawdithit who died on 6th June 1829.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what it said, which killed\/destroyed the innocence of your Ontarians as a Canadian-citizenry who believed in Generosity, Truth and Good Democratic Governance, and toed the line of our<strong><em> Charter of Rights<\/em><\/strong> and upheld every clause in it, and most importantly that of <strong>Human Rights<\/strong>, the <strong><em>Right-to-Life<\/em><\/strong>. As such there was <strong>No place for<\/strong> <strong>Genocide, in Canada.<\/strong> Right Doug!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news item said,\u00a0 <strong><em>Possible grave find at First Nation &#8211; British Columbia &#8211;\u00a0 \u2018<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Reflections\u2019 could show 93 burial sites\u2026<\/em><\/strong>indicating the number of children buried around the site of former\u00a0 First Nation-residential schools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is more about <strong>\u2018We Canada, are Holier than Thou\u2019 <\/strong>arrogant\nmind-set of Ontario Provincial Premier Doug Ford\u2019s legislators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well\u2026well\u2026well Premier Ford, You and your 29 Cabinet ministers who were metamorphosed into clowns by Vijay Thanigasalam, MPP for Scarborough Rouge-Park by making you all vote for Bill 104, a <strong><em>Hocus-pocus <\/em><\/strong>arrogant drivel just to earn the Tamil Sinhalese- blood-soaked-votes in the Greater Toronto Area.\u00a0 Right.! You Conservatives sold your souls to live another day as a member of Ontario\u2019s Conservative Governing party.\u00a0 And with a handsome pay-cheque, preferred to eat a sirloin steak for dinner, rather than a hot dog with potato wedges with gravy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course, Vijay preferred to eat <em>mutton-buriyani<\/em> with <em>chicken vindaloo<\/em> and <em>Tharka dhall;<\/em> for dinner than a bowl of <em>Kanji <\/em>with a crumb of <em>Naan.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You Ontario legislators were beaming with <strong><em>Holier than Thou<\/em><\/strong> arrogance pointing your fingers at Sri Lankans charging them of unsubstantiated Tamil <strong>Genocide\u201d <\/strong>when you were <strong><em>Maestros of<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>Genocide <\/em><\/strong>of First Nation residential kids all along!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0 May 2021 discovery of mass graves containing the remains of 215 First Nation native children at the site of the <strong>Kamloops Indian Residential\u00a0 Schools <\/strong>shocked me, and no doubt shocked you Premier Ford, shocked 38 million Canadians and also the whole world.&nbsp;\nWe, Canadians, who point our fingers at Sri Lanka accusing of Tamil Genocide were all along\ninvolved in <strong>Genocide <\/strong>of Native Indian children in Residential schools.&nbsp; Shish!&nbsp; What a\nstory of despicable Canadian\u2019 cunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<strong><em>Sweet-Mother of Jesus<\/em><\/strong>, give these pathetic sinners some guidance<strong> to rescind the lying Bill 104<\/strong> <strong>immediately<\/strong> <strong>and\u00a0 give all Sinhalese-Canadian Ontarians our dignity back, sanitised, polished, cleansed and bathed in <em>Turmeric <\/em>\u00a0water and<em> Garam Masala s<\/em>oap , provided by\u00a0 Vijay Thanimasalam,<\/strong> <strong>a Tamil-Canadian, the\u00a0 author of the Private Member&#8217;s\u00a0 Bill 104 which is now Law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Premier Doug Ford, I hope you hear me loud and clear.\u00a0 Clear as the<\/strong> <strong>sound of the\u00a0 First Nation Traditional drum beats of their Summer Solstice Festival..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>boom.,.boom\u2026boom.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Premier Doug Ford:\u00a0I want my Canadian-Sinhalese-Sri Lankan dignity back. Let\u2019s rescind the<\/strong> <strong><em>Hocus-pocus<\/em><\/strong><strong> Bill 104 without delay,\u00a0 and before May 11,\u00a0 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that the whole world knows of the <strong>Canadian involvement in Genocide of<\/strong> <strong>First Nation children in Residential schools<\/strong>,<strong> Premier Doug Ford, you have abdicated\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>the decency and moral right to point your finger accusing&nbsp; my\nland of Birth- the beautiful <\/strong><strong>Sri Lanka of Tamil Genocide,&nbsp; who gave Vijay Thanigasalam a\nlife and nurtured him for his <\/strong><strong>first 14 years with -Free Education and all.&nbsp; He convinced\nyou all to become political-jokers <\/strong><strong>of his Tamil Blarney Gong Show. <\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You heard Vijay\u2019s<strong> \u2018Tamil Facts\u2019,\u00a0 <\/strong>but what you all denied yourselves was to listen to the <strong>\u2018Tamil Truths\u2019, <\/strong>before you decided to become <strong>Jokers of Vijay\u2019s Tamil Blaney Gong Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is still not too late to listen to the<strong> \u2018Tamil Truths\u2019, <\/strong>which might convince you that Vijay took you all down the muddy, thorny, lying-Puke-smelling garden path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am ever ready to provide you with the \u2018TAMIL TRUTHS\u2019. &nbsp;\nInvite me and I will be<\/strong> <strong>delighted <\/strong><strong>to give you a chance<\/strong>&nbsp; to remove your Tamil-dunce\ncaps and throw them into your Blue Bins for recycling. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afterall, there is no denying that Canada is bankrupt when it comes to upholding\u00a0 Human Rights\u201d , <strong><em>The- Right-Life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But let me repeat myself again Premier Doug Ford, the bottom-line is that I demand that you restore my dignity as an honest and proud Sinhalese-Sri Lankan-Canadian, by rescinding<\/strong> <strong>your Hocus-pocus Bill104 at your earliest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What choice have you got when the whole world knows that we\nCanadians&nbsp; are <em>Maestros of <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Genocide<\/em><\/strong><strong> and not innocent, lily-white, We\nare Holier than Thou\u201d\u2019 world citizens anymore.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tough.\u00a0 That\u2019s how the ugly cookie crumbles!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who gave back to my adopted home Canada, handsomely with my honest hard work and have been acknowledged <strong>by the following citations <\/strong>\u00a0And that inner-pride which made me a proud Canadian, is no ones play to take it away from me or destroy it, whether its Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, or the MPP Vijay Thanigasalem of Scarborough-Rouge Park, just because my Motherland is Sri Lanka that I am still romancing with for the love of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;* Canada\u2019s Who\u2019s- Who;<\/strong>*Founder-Organizer of <strong><em>Gloucester Spoken Art of Poetry &amp;\nStorytelling Series<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;1995-2007;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<strong><em>City of Ottawa, Civic Appreciation Award for Arts and\nCulture, 2003;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>*Canadian Millennium Encyclopedia of Immigrants <\/em><\/strong>who have\ncontributed to enrich Multiculturalism as a Sri Lankan, 2000;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Head hunted and brought me over from London, England, to <strong>Head\nthe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Thematic Research Section of the National Museums\nCorporation<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;for the renovation programme of the Victoria Memorial\nMuseum, Ottawa.&nbsp;&nbsp;And was the lead in the team that made Canada proud by\nproducing one of the&nbsp;&nbsp;World\u2019s best Museum Dinosaur Hall\u2019s (<strong><em>Life\nThrough the Ages)<\/em><\/strong> 1974;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* My long poem <strong><em>Trail of Mankind,<\/em><\/strong> was adapted as the\nstoryline for the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>National Museum of Man\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp; Orientation\nHall, Victoria Memorial Museum,&nbsp;&nbsp;1974;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Awarded the <strong>Gold Medal<\/strong> for non-narrative Poetry at the <strong>Arts and Letters  \u00a0Competition of Newfoundland and Labrador, <\/strong>1969;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Was invited to Chair the Advocacy Committee by the Gloucester\nArts&nbsp;&nbsp;Council to kick off building the Shenkman Theatre\nComplex in Orleans !993-95;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Invited as a <strong>Canadian Poet <\/strong>to be the <strong>Poet-in-Residence\nat the <em>Dylan<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Thomas<\/em>&nbsp; <em>Sung and Word Festival,<\/em><\/strong>\nat Dylan\u2019s Birthhouse at 5 Cwmdonkin&nbsp;&nbsp;Drive, Swansea, Wales, September-October 2012;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Invited by the British High Commissioner to Canada to start-off <strong>Dylan\nThomas<\/strong>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Welsh poet\u2019s Centennial Celebration <\/em>i<\/strong>n\nJanuary, 2014, in Ottawa by&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;introducing and reciting Dylan Thomas\u2019s poetry\nand mine of him to a Welsh&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;audience of about 100 invited guests;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<strong> Gloucester City Council 2000, Arts Award;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>* 2002 Ontario Volunteer Service Award for 15-years;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>* Outstanding Asian Canadian Award. Honouring the Pioneers\u201d <\/strong>in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;recognition of exemplary contribution to the\nCanadian Community,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Presented by Canadian Multicultural Council of\nAsians in Ontario,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;May 3,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Was guest, \u2018<strong>Canadian Poet<\/strong> Asoka Weerasinghe\u2019 at the <strong><em>International Poetry<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>\u00a0Festival<\/em><\/strong> at Austin, Texas, US, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>And a few more, that made me proud to be a\nCanadian<\/strong>. And you Premier&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Doug Ford of Ontario, and your 29 Councillors,\ntarnished Me because of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;my Sri Lankan Heritage with your lying,\nbombastic,&nbsp; finger pointing allegations&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;that my <strong><em>Motherland Sri Lanka <\/em><\/strong>committed\n<strong>Genocide<\/strong> against the Tamils which&nbsp;&nbsp;She never did,&nbsp; with&nbsp; Your Bill 104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Doug, I stand by what I say, that it was\na&nbsp;bunch of baloney, strings of Vijay\u2019s&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;masalawade, <\/em><\/strong>Poppycock,&nbsp;a\ncrock of full of codswallop,&nbsp; two dead capelin on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the shores of Middle Cove in Newfoundland,\nand two Prairie straws waving in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the wind unhappy and distraught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Premier Doug Ford, I tell you to back off my Sri\nLanka, because we Canadians&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;are&nbsp; bankrupt as Human Rights Genocide\npolice  as we are now being&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;recognized as violators&nbsp; of Human\nRights<strong><em> Right-to-Life<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>by committing<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Genocide on the First Nation childred in\nResidential Schools.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;I, Asoka Weerasinghe a Sri Lankan-Canadian,of\nGloucester, Ontario,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;demand my DIGNITY restored, by you Premier Doug\nFord of Ontario, by&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;rescinding Bill 104, as it is\nnull-and-void.&nbsp; So Help me God!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AW.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 1 February,&nbsp; 2022 Hon. Doug Ford, Premier of OntarioOffice of the PremierLegislative BuildingQueens ParkToronto, OntarioM74 1A1(Doug.Ford@pc.ola.org)\u00a0 Dear Premier Doug Ford of the Province of Ontario\u00a0and your 29 Cabinet Ministers who voted for Bill 104 supporting the Tamil Pox-Hoax Genocide Coalition of Fraudsters. 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