{"id":55574,"date":"2016-06-14T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T04:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55574"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T22:28:12","slug":"letter-on-the-canadian-prime-minister-and-his-liberal-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/14\/letter-on-the-canadian-prime-minister-and-his-liberal-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter on the Canadian Prime Minister and his Liberal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

14 June 2016<\/p>\n

Hon. Maithripala Siresena
\nPresident
\nRepublic of Sri Lanka
\nColombo, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

CC;Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe
\nPrime Minister of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Dear President Sirisena:<\/p>\n

ColomboPage of June 8, 2016 told us that Sri Lanka President vows to eradicate LTTE ideology which is still present locally and globally to ensure long term peace in Sri Lanka.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It continued, He said, since being elected, he had been able to cultivate friendships with all world leaders.\u00a0 He would rely on their assistance to achieve reconciliation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

While you have every right to Dream On\u201d, Mr. President, I would hate to rain on your parade when you come to deal with Canada and its leader.\u00a0 You obviously didn\u2019t read Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s statement, Canada\u2019s Prime Minister willing to assist Sri Lanka address serious violations of International law during<\/em><\/strong> the war,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and my response to him of May 19, 2016, which could be found, posted in Lankaweb<\/em><\/strong> on May 24th<\/sup>, 2016.<\/p>\n

If your research staff hadn\u2019t been diligent to pick them up and place them in your daily Briefing File, then let\u2019s forget that lot.\u00a0 \u00a0But, please ask your son or daughter to find them by Googling Lankaweb<\/em>,<\/strong> read them and brief you.\u00a0 That certainly will shake you out of your naive Dream On\u201d world.\u00a0 The chances that the Canadian government will help you to eradicate LTTE ideology in Canada, has a Snow ball chance in Hell.<\/p>\n

President Sirisena, here is the rub.\u00a0 As you are aware, parliamentarians around the world are all cookie-cutter-produced characters who would do any shenanigan, whether legal constitutionally or illegal to sit their butts on a carved wooden bench in their parliament\u2019s chamber.\u00a0 Sri Lankans have always been good at that, bribing their constituents and promising heaven and earth to seek their votes, or even get the President and the Prime Minister to act as twin Gods to get themselves through the back door of Parliament after having been rejected by the masses by a democratic vote, and still manage to seat themselves in parliament and some even at the Cabinet table.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This incident will go down in history as a classic example of how your Yahapalanaya Good Governance<\/em><\/strong> worked.<\/p>\n

Not only that Mr. President, the perks that come being a parliamentarian has a handsome monetary value to \u00a0give enough reasons to try any shenanigan to become a member of parliament, whether it is in Sri Lanka or Canada.<\/p>\n

For example, Mr. President, your Yahapalanaya Good Governance<\/em><\/strong> shocked every ordinary citizen, when you let your caucus members milk the country, not withstanding the rural poor wracking their brains how to put cents from their salli-malla<\/em><\/strong> together to buy a coconut to cook a decent meal for their family, and your parliamentarians were going after their perks of getting luxury vehicles worth billions of rupees.\u00a0 This was decadence of the first order, this is sick, Mr. President.\u00a0 While a 6 and an 8 year old brother and sister in a white shirt and blue shorts and a white dress with school ties, started to walk to school and 6 in the morning to get to school by 7:30 in the morning down Kandalama way, and your parliamentarians are after luxury cars to travel in. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These two kids needed bicycles and no luxury car riding parliamentarian cared. What\u2019s going on, Mr. President?\u00a0 The airport car driver who drove me home said that he was still missing a couple of thousand rupees to buy his young son the top sprinter at school, a pair of good sprinter\u2019s track shoes which he had promised that he would buy him, \u00a0and we have parliamentarians\u00a0 grovelling for their luxury cars costing the tax payer billions of rupees.\u00a0 This is the airport car driver working on commissions. That is his Karma <\/em>and the luck of the draw.<\/p>\n

Little wonder why when I asked 23 rural folk across Sri Lanka in February, Kohomada may aluth arnduwa?\u201d <\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Everyone snickered and told, almost in pirith-unison, Oya okkoma hora yakku, Mahaththaya<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 That is the pulse of your rural folk, Mr. President in Kosgoda, Galle, Nuwara Eliya, Rattota, Gatambe, Ibbagamuwa, Galewella, Melsiripura Hakgala, Dambulla, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Colombo\u2019s Kanatta grave diggers. And this is the holy truth, and nothing but the truth.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s what was extraordinary about these 23 rural persons.\u00a0 I am not kidding, everyone placed their palms together, stretched their arms to the sky looked up and blessed Ranasinghe Premadasa Mathithuma.<\/em>\u00a0 Not Mahinda Rajapaksa nor Maithripala Sirisena or Ranil Wickremasinghe.\u00a0\u00a0 Are you out of touch with these rural people, Mr. President?\u00a0 Go figure that one out!<\/p>\n

Mr. President, coming back to your wanting to eradicate LTTE ideology, \u00a0of wanting their mythical mono-ethnic, racist, Tamil state Eelam, which is still present locally and globally to ensure long term peace, I wonder from where on earth did you get the idea that you can achieve that among the separatist Tamil-Canadians?\u00a0 I told you earlier, Dream On\u201d, Mr. President.\u00a0 Who said they wanted reconciliation sans an Eelam?<\/p>\n

Do you honestly believe that your new found friendship with Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will help you along for you to achieve your Dream\u201d?<\/p>\n

What nonsense!\u00a0 These Canadian political parties, Liberal, Conservative and NDP are as hungry as the My3-Ranil Combo who wanted power, and wanted to get elected by hook or by crook as you lot did.<\/p>\n

Are you aware that nine ridings in the Greater Toronto Area depend on the Bloc-Tamil-Canadian votes?\u00a0 I doubt the Canadian politicians have rocks in their heads wanting to let go of these Tamil votes and lose power to govern the country so that you could achieve your dream\u2019.\u00a0 That is not going to happen.\u00a0\u00a0 But, what might very likely happen is that Canada\u2019s political leaders might tell you:<\/p>\n

President Sirisena, why don\u2019t you have a good shot of Mendis Special \u00a0and a healthy plate of rice with kukul muss curry for lunch, and fly a kite at Galle Face Green, as we are not going to antagonize the Tamil community as they want nothing but their piece of real estate up North and East \u00a0of your island for their Eelam and we are leaning towards supporting them.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. President, but here are some brain-teasers for you to give some thought.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Do you know why the Liberal parliamentarians, Jim Karygiannis, Roy Cullen, Tony Ianno, John McKay Tom Wappel, Byron Wilfert and Joe Volpe followed their two senior Cabinet Ministers Paul Martin (Finance) and Maria Minna (CIDA) to patronize a $60-a-plate fund raising dinner organized by FACT in Toronto on 6 May 2000 for the Tamil Tigers?\u00a0 They were grovelling for the Tamil votes in the Greater Toronto Area.\u00a0 Do you honestly feel that they would give up their political power, lucrative perks and building up their pensions to accommodate your Dream.\u00a0 The chances are zilch!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    1. Do you know why the Liberal parliamentarian Derek Lee (retired from politics) from the Greater Toronto Area eulogized the Tamil Tiger Anton Balasingham at his funeral service in Toronto? He was grovelling for the Tamil votes for him and his colleagues in the Greater Toronto Area.\u00a0 Do you honestly feel that they would give up their political power, lucrative perks and build up on their pensions, to accommodate your Dream\u201d.\u00a0 The chances are Zip!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Do you know why Liberal parliamentarians Jim Karygiannis, Maria Minna, Derek Lee, Borys Wrzesnewsky, John Cannis. John McKay, Mark Holland, Yasmin Ratansi and Lui Tenmelkovaski stood outdoors in vigil with 10,000 of their Tamil constituents at the Markham Recreation Ground in Ontario, on that rain-spitting cold shivering day on\u00a0 6th November 2007,\u00a0 \u00a0for S.P. Thamil Chelvam who was killed by a bomb dropped by the Air Force on a Killinochchi building where\u00a0 Tamil Chelvam was attending a palaver?\u00a0\u00a0 And why the Tamil Tiger terrorists, the most ruthless in the world, were christened in public that evening by these Liberal parliamentarians as Doves of Peace\u201d?\u00a0 The Liberals were grovelling for the Tamil votes.\u00a0 Do you honestly feel that they would give up their political power, lucrative perks and building up their pensions being MPs to accommodate your Dream\u201d?\u00a0 The chances are Zero?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          \n
        1. Do you know why the Conservative Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon put out a pathetic Press Release with no congratulatory pat on Sri Lanka\u2019s back when Sri Lanka\u2019s armed forces wiped out the Tamil Tigers, the most ruthless terrorist group in the world, on 18 May 2009, the last one dying on the sandy banks of the Nandikadal lagoon, while all other western countries said Good for you Sri Lanka!\u201d<\/em> and patted Sri Lanka\u2019s back. The Conservatives knew that they couldn\u2019t handle 20,000 Tamils, men, women and children and their grandparents storming Sussex Drive in protest the following morning under a sky of 20,000 red Tamil Tiger terrorist flags.\u00a0 And along the way lose every single Tamil vote and lose nine ridings in the Greater Toronto Area at the next Federal election.\u00a0 So honestly do you feel that they will give up their Tamil votes, their bread and butter, and their monthly handsome pension cheque to accommodate your Dream\u201d?\u00a0 I say Diddly-squat!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Do you know why Jack Layton, the NDP leader compared Velupillai Prabakaran to South Africa\u2019s Nelson Mandela in front of 10,000 Tamils celebrating Pongu Thamil at Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto? It was because he wanted to garner every one of the 10,000 separatist Tamil votes in that crowd for the NDP.\u00a0 Surely, Mr. President,\u00a0 you are not that naive\u00a0 are you to believe that the NDP will support your \u2018Dream\u2019 of eradicating the LTTE ideology \u00a0among the separatist Tamil-Canadians do you?\u00a0\u00a0 The chances are pretty slim, and you are skating on thin ice on that one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
              \n
            1. Do you know why Deepak Obhrai, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper\u2019s Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs who represented Canada at the Commonwealth Summit Meeting in Colombo took off \u00a0to the North with a photographer in tow, \u00a0to record his laying a wreath at Elephant Pass for the Tamil soldiers who died at war\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and not the Sinhalese soldiers who got killed and when asked not to do it by a Sri Lankan official? \u00a0(read Deepak Obhrai: His defence in laying a wreath at Elephant Pass by Asoka Weerasinghe posted in Lankaweb,<\/strong> December 7, 2013<\/em>)\u00a0 Obhrai was brave and acted like a thug. \u00a0He was the hit man for the Tamil Diaspora doing this thuggish act. \u00a0When this cunning, disingenuous politician was challenged he said that Elephant Pass was a neutral location to lay the wreath.\u00a0 I had to educate this fool in a letter on December 6, 2013, that there was nothing neutral about Elephant Pass where three historical battles were fought by Tamil Tigers killing hundreds of Sri Lankan, mainly Sinhalese soldiers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              This thuggish act was exposed as a deliberate Tamil vote begging act.\u00a0 He returned to Canada and immediately goes to Toronto to proudly tell the Tamil community what he had done for them to promote their racist separatist cause.\u00a0 So you see Mr. President, you will be treading on some difficult slippery rocky terrain if you think that you can convince Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help you eradicate\u00a0 the LTTE ideology among the Tamil Diaspora in Canada.\u00a0 And I could \u00a0go on with many more examples to reason out that your wish \u00a0is just a \u2018Dream\u2019 and will not happen.\u00a0 Prove me wrong, Mr. President, and may be I will start to believe in your Yahapalanaya Good Governance <\/em><\/strong>which has eluded me pretty badly.<\/p>\n

              However, I hope you will read this letter in the spirit of being cautioned by a Sinhalese-Canadian not to get embarrassed personally with your venture in Canada and embarrass your country you represent.\u00a0 You no doubt, are being honest with what you want to achieve, but also being naive at the same time.<\/p>\n

              This information for my reasoning you will not get from the Canada desk at the Foreign Ministry in Colombo nor will you from the Sri Lanka Mission in Ottawa.\u00a0 That is a realty check for you, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

              All what I can say to you Mr. President is, I wish you Good Luck in all my heart!\u201d<\/p>\n

              Sincerely,<\/p>\n

              Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)
              \n(formerly from Colombo 9 and
              \nan old boy of Nalanda College)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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