{"id":40821,"date":"2015-01-12T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40821"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:17:41","slug":"canadas-statement-on-sri-lankas-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/12\/canadas-statement-on-sri-lankas-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s statement on Sri Lanka’s Presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .\u00a0Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

12 January 2015<\/p>\n

Hon. Jason Kenney, MP., PC<\/p>\n

Minister of Employment & Social Development & Multiculturtalism<\/p>\n

House of Commons, Ottawa<\/p>\n

Dear Jason Kenney:<\/p>\n

Thank you for forwarding John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affair\u2019s statement of congratulations on a Sri Lanka\u2019s Successful Presidential Elections<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 That was magnanimous on the part of John, who had\u00a0slapped and trampled Sri Lanka under former\u00a0 gutsy President Mahinda Rajapaksa who had no compunction to toe Canada\u2019s line to support the Tamil rump in Canada, that John did with his anti-Sri Lanka Nepean Jig at the United Nations for them.\u00a0 Remember the hissy fit by our Prime Minister Harper boycotting the Commonwealth Summit just for\u00a0 the eyes and ears of the Tamil Diaspora, almost begging for the Tamil votes in the Greater Toronto Area saying under his breath\u00a0 \u2013 This is what I did for you guys,<\/em><\/strong> now give me your votes at the next Federal election<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Right, Jason?<\/p>\n

And I will never forgive you Jason, for being so arrogant and smug to go to Sri Lanka and preach to them about Human Rights, when we have been so horrible towards our own First Nations peoples.\u00a0\u00a0And these First Nations peoples \u00a0happened to be demonstrating on the\u00a0 very subject\u00a0 almost under your window at Parliament\u2019s East Block with their Idle No More<\/strong> protest, on the same day at the same hour when you were preaching to the Sri Lankans that ‘We were Holier than Thou!’\u00a0when it comes to respecting\u00a0Human Rights.<\/p>\n

I notice that John Baird had deliberately missed five words at the end of his statement when he said Canada looks forward to this new chapter in Sri Lanka\u2019s history, one of prosperity and unity.\u201d\u00a0 There would have been value added to that statement only if he had said, Canada looks forward to this new chapter in Sri Lanka\u2019s history, one of prosperity and unity within the unitary status of the country.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>All what I say to Canada is, You have failed once again on Sri Lanka not understanding its history not understanding the aspirations of the majority of Sri Lankans exclusive of the Tamils who are continuing to clamour for their separate, Mono-ethnic,\u00a0 Tamil racist state, Eelam, and wants to go back to\u00a0 war to kill thousands of innocents, recruit young Tamil children as child soldiers and brainwash and train kidnapped Tamil girls to become suicide bombers for the want of their\u00a0 Tamil Eelam.<\/p>\n

Jason,\u00a0 it a clear that this election was\u00a0 not won or lost on economic reasons and the soaring cost of living but was on corruption and nepotism. This is what did the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in. You and I also know all about such ugly political fraud scandals in Canada, don\u2019t we Jason!\u00a0 It does seem to be a world wide cancer among politicians of every colour.\u00a0 So\u00a0Canada shouldn\u2019t pretend that we are lily-white.<\/p>\n

Canadian history has already recorded the Airbus Affair (1995), how Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was implicated in a kickback scheme to purchase Airbus planes for Air Canada;\u00a0 Shawinigate (1996), an alleged conflict of interest lobbying effort by Prime Minister Jean Chretien; The famous sponsorship scandal (2004) of misuse and misdirection of funds disbursed through the Liberal government 1990s sponsorship program which was investigated by the\u00a0 Justice Gomery Commission and some who were implicated were put behind bars; the In and Out scandal (2007) of the alleged circumvention of election finance rules by your Government in the 2006 election\u00a0 campaign\u2019 ; and the Canadian Senate\u00a0 expenses scandal (2012), the investigation which is still on going concerning the expenses claims by Senators Mike Duffy, Mac Harb, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau.<\/p>\n

Jason, the soaring cost of living is not endemic to Sri Lanka only, but it is also a socio-economic reality in Ottawa too. A Food Bank in the west-end feeds almost 2000 families each month\u00a0and among them\u00a0are three Sri Lankan-Canadian families\u00a0 who had\u00a0 come to Canada hoping to walk on streets paved with gold.\u00a0 Bad Karma!<\/p>\n

Jason, you bet, now the Western vultures, including the Canadians will circle the new President Maithripala Sirisena\u2019s wagon\u00a0 bullying to kowtow to them, which the gutsy Mahinda Rajapaksa had asked them to go fly a kite\u00a0when asked\u00a0to give Tamils\u00a0 their Eelam. Or else that they will\u00a0 haul the individuals who kicked the behinds of the Tamil Tigers and eliminated them on 19 May 2009, on alleged human rights violations of the last five months of a 27 year bloody war, that was aided and abetted by India, Norway, Canada, UK and you name it.\u00a0 This is bloody insane, isn\u2019t it Jason. All what I say to you Westerners \u2013\u00a0 If you are that stupid, give it a try and good luck.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Ottawa Citizen headlines with the words Terror summit set for D.C. \u2013 Obama to<\/strong> host Canada, others as Paris attacks raise alarm<\/strong>. So\u00a0one attack in Paris sets an alarm all over the world, but 1000s of terror attacks\u00a0 in puny Sri Lanka during 27-bloody years by the most ruthless terrorists in the world, the Tamil Tigers,\u00a0most certainly\u00a0didn\u2019t set 1000 alarms around the world, not even in Canada’s Parliament Hill.\u00a0 How come, Jason?<\/p>\n

But I am glad that there is a Terror Summit<\/strong> to be held on this subject.\u00a0 And I sincerely hope that this international summit will come out with a Manual \u2013 How to\u00a0 eliminate Terrorists and terrorism without killing them or violating their Human Rights for<\/em><\/strong> Dummies.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 If there was such a Manual, the International Actors, which includes Canada will not be trying to haul the former President and others who got rid of the Tamil Tigers the most ruthless terrorists in the world, \u00a0on ground of violating Human Rights to an International Criminal Court. That is how the\u00a0What is Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander cookie<\/strong><\/em> crumbles, Jason.\u00a0 Not kosher, is it now!<\/p>\n

Thank you for keeping me informed of Canada\u2019s interest in my Motherland, my native Sri Lanka, that I am still prepared to keep guard\u00a0 for her from vultures\u00a0 from inside and outside of that pretty island that nurtured\u00a0 me during the first 19 years of my life from which Canada has benefitted immensely.<\/p>\n

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Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe<\/p>\n

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