{"id":60645,"date":"2016-11-11T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=60645"},"modified":"2016-11-11T07:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T14:59:42","slug":"first-annual-general-meeting-of-the-canada-tamil-parliamentary-friendship-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/11\/11\/first-annual-general-meeting-of-the-canada-tamil-parliamentary-friendship-group\/","title":{"rendered":"First Annual General Meeting of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0 Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

9 November 2016<\/p>\n

Mark Holland, Liberal MP for Ajax, Ontario
\nHouse of Commons
\nOttawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n

Dear Mark:<\/p>\n

Re: First Annual General Meeting of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some one out there had sent me your note to your Parliamentary Colleagues informing of the First Annual General Meeting of the<\/strong> Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/strong>, to be held on Monday, November 14th<\/sup>, at 5:30 P.M. in Room1140, of the Valour Building.<\/p>\n

Mark, do I understand that the selected hour for this initial gathering is of a planetary auspicious time when one Tamil member from your constituency will appear with a red third eye between his eyebrows and break a coconut by thrashing it on the concrete floor at your feet, seeking blessings for a successful palaver and a future for this newly formed Parliamentary Group.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm….Very interesting…!\u00a0 I am not quite sure what the exact significance of this coconut breaking act is, but I hope you do.\u00a0 It was announced that 1008\u00a0 coconuts were broken by a Sri Lankan-Tamil\u00a0 at the Nallur Kovil in Jaffna seeking the help of the Hindu Pantheon to get Hillary Clinton elected as the next President of the US.\u00a0 And that bit of hocus-pocus did not work as she was not elected\u00a0 as President of the USA last night.\u00a0 It seems that this coconut-breaking act has some rub-the-Aladdin\u2019s-lamp-magic for the Tamils. I suppose sometimes it works, but some times it doesn\u2019t, like after breaking millions of coconuts at Kovils around the Tamil Diaspora world for 30 years, and killing thousands of innocent Sinhalese, plucking infants off their mothers breasts and thrashing their heads on rocks like breaking coconuts and watching the blood ooze like warm-ketchup for the want for their mono-ethnic, racist, separatist\u00a0 Tamil state, Eelam.\u00a0 That mythical Eelam they still haven\u2019t\u00a0 got and I wish that they damn well will never, ever,\u00a0 get..<\/p>\n

As Dr. Martin Luther King did say, We shall have to repent in this generation not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> So I have decided to put on the hat of the good people\u201d, the one with the logo of the Sri Lankan Sinhaya<\/em> (lion) to lay out to you what I think of your new project Mark, to collect all the Canadian-Tamil votes for the Federal Liberals at the next federal election.<\/p>\n

You know what Mark, there are several things that bother me as a Sri Lankan-Sinhalese-Canadian about this AGM of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/strong>, which you obviously is the leader and want it to happen and succeed for the sake of the Tamil Diaspora, for the sake of jigging every Tamil-Canadian vote for the Liberals at the next Federal election.\u00a0 Your AGM disavows the norms of parliamentary protocol as it is not the norm to have Parliamentary Friendship Groups based on ethnicity<\/strong>. It is disconcerting that your heart does not cry for me, a Sinhalese, and the rest of the Sri Lankan-Sinhalese community in Canada who had been subjected to horrendous human rights violations by the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tamils of Tamil Eelam), the most ruthless gang of serial killing terrorists in the world.\u00a0 These Tamil Tigers were the terrorists who perfected the detonating suicide body pack for suicide bombings.\u00a0 And by the time the Tamil Tigers were annihilated on 19th May 2009, the last dying with a gun-shot wound to his head on the beach sands of the Nandikadal lagoon,\u00a0 they had 388 \u2018Jaffna\u2019s crow-feathers-of-pride\u2019<\/em> stuck on their leader Prabhakaran\u2019s military beret and the leather waist belt with pockets for live bullets and hand grenades, each for a successful suicide bombing killing thousands of innocent Sinhalese together with their young Tamil suicide bomber.\u00a0 Half of these suicide bombers were young brain-washed Tamil women who had been kidnapped on their way to school to be used for this very heinous act.\u00a0 Will this get chalked in during your \u2018focus of human rights violations\u2019 in Sri Lanka?\u00a0 I bet not as it would not help your Tamil vote seeking agenda, will it now, Mark?<\/p>\n

I am disappointed that you have initiated this Canada-Tamil<\/strong> Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/strong> for the very purpose of advocating for human rights in another country, when we Canadians have been slapped at by the United Nations for violating the Human Rights of our Inuit and First Nations peoples.\u00a0 Mark, you have no moral right to puff yourself like a robin and strut around with a puffed red breast telling the Sri Lankan Government, Hey! listen to us as, We are Holier than Thou!.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You bunch of Humbugs\u201d would be my reaction.<\/p>\n

You know what got my goat Mark, it is when your note to your parliamentary colleagues says, that the focus of this Canada-Tamil<\/strong> Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/strong> will be all about peace and justice in Sri Lanka.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 How dare you, Mark! That is a clumsy, sordid and a disingenuous offering, when it were you men and women of the Liberal Party parliamentarians, under the Prime Minister\u2019s Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, who looked away when the Tamil Diaspora collected two million dollars each month for 13 long years to stuff the Tamil Tiger war-chest to purchase war killing weapons to kill my Sinhalese people back home in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That disingenuous offering by you to be the international-police to focus on \u2018peace and justice in Sri Lanka\u2019 is a load of Bull\u201d Mark. Especially when you lot aided and abetted that Eelam War; a crime that needs punishing.<\/p>\n

I wonder whether your bleeding heart will have a tear for me and for the rest of the Canadian-Sinhalese community in Canada when you hear this story.<\/p>\n

Turn your hands and look at your palms intimately. That slight film of blood is of my Sinhalese people, which is also on every pair of palms of 34 million Canadians.\u00a0 You Liberals made us all sinners, when you let a Canadian-Tamil cut a cheque for many millions of dollars in 1994 from a Bank in Vancouver to purchase 10 tons of hexagon, a plastic explosives like Semtex <\/em>50 tons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a large quantity of electric timing caps and detonator cord from the Rubezone Chemical Factory in the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

These explosive materials bought with Canadian dollars were used in a truck bomb to bring down the Central Bank Building in Colombo\u2019s Financial District on 31 January 1996, killing 114 and maiming for life another 1338 people.\u00a0\u00a0 One happened to be a friend of mine.\u00a0 A Director in the Bank, a Master\u2019s degree graduate in Statistics from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D from Ottawa U.<\/p>\n

I see that you are seeking accountability from Sri Lanka for human rights violations.\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 You know what Mark? The Sri Lankan Human Rights violators compass needle has been pointing towards Canada for many, many moons, as we were responsible for the 114 deaths and maiming for life 1338 others.\u00a0 We, Canadians did those innocent 114 people in, Mark.\u00a0 Does your bleeding heart bleed for me and my other Sinhalese in Ontario, now?\u00a0 Let me draw your attention that we Sinhalese are children of your same God as of your friends of the Tamil Diaspora that you have adopted as a Canadian Parliamentary\u00a0 surrogate Dad\u00a0 God won\u2019t be too happy with you for discriminating us Sinhalese-Canadians.\u00a0 He will tell you, Mark, you are a true and true racist.\u00a0 Now that you have breached the parliamentary protocol, why don\u2019t you lead a Parliamentary Canadian-Sinhalese<\/strong> Friendship Group<\/strong> to show your political fairness<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 And don\u2019t let Your God hear you say to yourself, Na! It is not worth it God, as there aren\u2019t enough Sinhalese votes to push the Greater Toronto Area Ridings over the hump to keep the Conservatives away from the winner\u2019s post.\u201d<\/em> That\u2019s what it is, isn\u2019t it Mark?\u00a0 I think I know your Liberals too damn well.<\/p>\n

Like the former Cabinet Ministers Paul Martin and Maria Minna with nine other backbenchers\u00a0 led by Jim Karygiannis who patronized a $60 a plate dinner organized by FACT to raise funds for the most ruthless Tamil Tiger terrorists on\u00a0 6 May 2000, in Toronto.<\/p>\n

This event was proof positive that your Liberal party\u2019s support for the Tamil Tigers are a bunch of sickkoes,<\/em> supporting the Tamil Tigers to have their own mono-ethnic racist Tamil state Eelam, by breaking that island democracy into two.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t forget, Mark, when on October 30, 1995, when all of Canada were on pins, and most of the Liberal caucus were peeing in their pants as Quebecers went to vote for their referendum to split away from the rest of Canada. It was a touch and go vote when the No\u201d votes came at 2,362,648 (50,58%) and the Yes\u201d votes were 2.308,360 (49.42%). Phew! That was close for comfort.<\/p>\n

The bottom line of this exercise was that all of Canada minus the Quebecoise\u00a0 did not want a Francophone separate, racist state.<\/p>\n

So what was good for the goose surely should be good for the gander,\u00a0 So Mark I hope you and your colleagues will never, ever go there during your Group deliberations wanting to promote a separate Tamil State, Eelam, to pander to the Tamil Diaspora seeking their votes.<\/p>\n

You Liberals did lose the remaining crumbs of your political innocence of honesty when you all participated in the Canadian Parliament\u2019s<\/strong> Tamil Blarney Gong Show<\/strong> which took place in the parliamentary chambers on 4 February 2009, called by NDP\u2019s Jack Layton for an Emergency Debate on Sri Lanka,\u00a0 and the gallery was sardine packed with Tamil immigrants and refugees.\u00a0 This is the leader of a Canadian political party who compared the ruthless Tamil Tiger serial killer leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to South Africa\u2019s Nelson Mandela, at a Pongu Thamil<\/em><\/strong> celebration at Queens Park in front of 10,000 Tamils.\u00a0 I suppose as a politician you know best Mark that politicians can show what stupid-clowns they are when they go begging for the Tamil votes in the Greater Toronto Area.\u00a0 And so you happen to be the Founder & Architect of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/strong>.\u00a0 I pray that it will not end up as the second Canadian Parliamentary Tamil Blarney Gong Show.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

This was the Tamil Blarney Gong Show<\/strong>, when you Liberals introduced to the world The Canadian Liberal \u2018s Terrible\u00a0 Lying Five – <\/strong>Robert Oliphant, Derek Lee, Jim Karygiannis, Judy Sgro, and Albina Guaneiri, who tried\u00a0 to stick the\u00a0 label, \u2018Tamil-Genocide\u2019<\/strong> with crazy glue on Sri Lanka and its Armed Forces.\u00a0 The tube of crazy glue was not prepared to provide the Terrible Lying Five<\/strong> that luxury and rebelled and didn\u2019t perform and the charge of \u2018Tamil-Genocide\u2019<\/strong> just slithered away into oblivion.\u00a0 Your Tamil vote hungry Liberal politicians have an obnoxious habit of spewing the words \u2018Tamil Genocide\u2019<\/strong> willy-nilly like a hot spiced-up Vindaloo <\/em>based word hoping that it would burn in Sri Lanka\u2019s belly.\u00a0 Your Terrible Lying Five<\/strong> failed miserably and they looked a sad picture of a Quintet of Stupidity<\/strong> with dunce caps on their heads. Hell No, I hope\u00a0 your new venture will not try that hoaxy, dirty shenanigan again, for the want of\u00a0 the Tamil Diaspora votes of the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n

I honestly hope that during your Canada-Tamil Friendship Group<\/strong> discussions that you all will be honest and recognize that getting rid of the Tamil Tigers militarily in Sri Lanka gave back the most treasured human right <\/em>to the island\u2019s 21 million people, to enjoy the dignity of their right-to-life<\/em><\/strong> which had been hijacked by he Tamil Tigers for 30 long years.\u00a0 Don\u2019t ignore it…don\u2019t skip it even though it wouldn\u2019t support your agenda of spitting on Sri Lanka and splitting the island which your friends, the Tamil Diaspora want.<\/p>\n

Furthermore,\u00a0 while I assume that your\u00a0 \u2018Parliament\u2019s Canada-Tamil Parliamentary Friendship Group\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is made of Intelligent people who could sieve through the complaints of Tamil Genocide<\/strong>\u201d like what we heard from the Liberal Party\u2019s Terrible Lying Five<\/strong>, ask yourselves, if indeed when the Fact is that by the end of the Eelam war on 19 May, 2009, the Sri Lankan armed forces had saved the lives of 295,873 Tamils from the clutches of the Tamil Tigers who herded them as a Human Shield from the west coast to the east coast like unwashed cattle for 30 months under a scorching Jaffna sun, why on earth would anyone complain of Tamil Genocide<\/strong> by the Sri Lankan Government and its armed forces. That\u2019s a load of cods-wallop, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Be careful not to get sucked into that ugly sink hole that is meant for God damn Liars.<\/p>\n

Mark, the question that you have to ask is, if there was indeed a Tamil Genocide<\/strong>, why the heck didn\u2019t the Sri Lankan soldiers let the 295,873 rescued Tamil refugees die of starvation, without turning themselves to be cooks to prepare 1000,000\u00a0 hearty breakfasts, lunches and dinners a day, to feed\u00a0 them and keep these Tamil refugees alive.\u00a0 You tell me why, Mark?<\/p>\n

Explain this story to a Middle School Grade 7 students in Ajax and ask them to explain what they thought of it. You know what you will hear from these intelligent kids is, Mr. Holland, either the people who complain about Tamil-Genocide<\/strong> is a bunch of nutty people, or else they are up to some shameful mischief.\u00a0 Either way, ignore these stupid, good-for-nothing-people!\u201d
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose you do understand why you got my goat when you had requested your Parliamentary colleagues to attend your First Annual General Meeting of the Canada-Tamil Parliamentary<\/strong> Friendship Group<\/strong>, I suspect your intention and I smell an awful smelly rat here.<\/p>\n

By the way, Mark, my involvement in this Canadian-Tamil Diaspora<\/strong> file goes back to 4 August 1983, when you were just 9 years, 10 month and 16 days old, when I together with another Sinhalese member of our Sri Lankan community, Asoka Yapa, from Chalk River went on TV\u2019s National News at 6 o\u2019clock in the evening to tell our side of the story after the Tamils for 11 days had spat, kicked and rubbed the Sinhalese faces on the ground with insults and lies using every conceivable print and audio-visual media that gave them a hearing.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t take that crap from the Tamils anymore.\u00a0 No sooner the news clip was aired my telephone at home started ringing, with Tamil accented voices threatening me that they will blow my face off the earth.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 And these threats went on for years.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t happy that we let the Canadians know that their stories were a bunch of ugly blood-dripping Fairy Tales.\u00a0 So, I am no Johnny-come-lately on this file.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

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

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