{"id":74091,"date":"2018-01-27T02:50:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T08:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74091"},"modified":"2018-01-26T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T02:28:03","slug":"ceremonial-opening-of-the-tgte-parliament-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/27\/ceremonial-opening-of-the-tgte-parliament-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremonial Opening of the TGTE Parliament in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

26 January, 2018<\/p>\n

President Maithripala Sirisena<\/p>\n

President of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Presidential Secretariat<\/p>\n

Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Ceremonial Opening of the TGTE Parliament in Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Dear President Maithripala Sirisena:<\/p>\n

By now you may have heard that a major anti-Sri Lanka event took place on Friday, 19 January, 2018, in Toronto, Canada.\u00a0 And Toronto happens to be the Capital of the Province of Ontario and not an inconspicuous little village in Ontario.<\/p>\n

This event was a precursor for a tectonic shift within the sovereign territory of your<\/p>\n

Nation.\u00a0 This was the event that sent you political tsunami tremours which you may have not felt as yet.\u00a0 As on that day, the separatist Tamil community in Canada that you and your government are bending over your backs to reconcile with, drew a curved fault-line on the west-north-east alignment on Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereign territory to break up your island nation into two.<\/p>\n

These Tamils of the Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)<\/strong>, a Tamil Government in Exile,<\/strong> know exactly what they want for their mono-ethnic, racist, separate Tamil state, Eelam. The fault-line separating the north and south of Sri Lanka, as shown on the map of Sri Lanka used as the backdrop for the Chairman of this gathering was in a blood-red wash, the colour of the Tamil Tiger terrorist flag.\u00a0 The fault-line picked up inland territory from Puttalam in the west coast going up north, then contouring along the shape of the Jaffna peninsula and ended in Kumana, way down in the east coast.\u00a0 Quite a chunk of territory.<\/p>\n

The land that the separatist Tamils are claiming was 33% of the real estate bordered by 66% of the coastline which we all know is the land where every square inch of it belongs to all ethnic communities and shared by 21 million of your peoples.\u00a0 Right, Mr. President?\u00a0 Ha! Ha!! And these separatist Tamils want to own it, and thus have begun to bulldoze all the ancient Buddhist archaeological Buddhist-Sinhala\u201d evidence, to show that they lived there from time immemorial.\u00a0 I say to you Mr. President, that claim is mounds of elephant-dung patties, that is poppycock, that is barrels full of jardi. That is hogwash.<\/p>\n

However, what was shocking was that this anti-Sri Lanka gathering on 19, January 2018 was the Ceremonial Opening of the TGTE Parliament <\/strong>which was given a home in the sovereign territory of a sister nation of the Commonwealth that Sri Lanka belongs to\u2026.Canada.\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0Himmm\u2026\u2026. A bit of a step-sisterly treatment, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Would you accept this provocation from a sister nation of yours?\u00a0 Would you accept such a crummy friendship with Canada?\u00a0 Well it is up to you to makeup your mind to favour your grandchildren and great-grandchildren who would say, Aney Dheviyaney, did Sri Lanka break up into two when Maithripala Seeya was President of Sri Lanka?\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 That is the bottom line, Mr. President.\u00a0 That is the heavy burden that you are carrying on your shoulders as the President of Sri Lanka, the Maithripala Seeya of your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\u00a0 That is the rub Mr. President.\u00a0 That is how your legacy pappadam crumbles.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, this event calls for your intervention personally, and have a straight Man-to-Man talk with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, as would two international politicians who are equals.\u00a0 Let us not have a cat-and-mouse game.\u00a0 There is much at stake here.\u00a0 Especially ethnic harmony, sans territorial partition-bloodshed as we witnessed when India was partitioned.\u00a0 This is not fear mongering, this is a possible reality check for you as this will be an emotional issue.\u00a0 This will be an incident between two highly charged ethnic peoples who are no Saints with halos atop their heads.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, this is not an issue for your Minister of Foreign Affairs or the High Commissioners of the two countries to tackle and sort things out, or play diplomatic niceties with palms together bowing or play footsie.\u00a0 It is beyond them and time is the essence.\u00a0 Forget about diplomatic protocols.\u00a0 It is for you to engage in a dialogue with\u00a0 Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\u00a0 You should take the bull by the horns and it is for you to run with the ball as it is your sovereign nation, Sri Lanka, that is in question and not Prime Minister\u2019 Justin Trudeau’s.\u00a0 It is your turn to thump the ball over the net to Prime Minister Justin\u00a0 Trudeau, and do it with all your might.\u00a0 No ambi-pambi <\/em><\/strong>stuff, please.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, remind Prime Minister\u00a0 Justin Trudeau what Canadians went through in the mid-1990s, trying to accommodate some demands from the French speaking Quebecois of the Province of Quebec, to keep them within Canada, They threatened to separate as the Tamils are clamouring to do right now, if they don\u2019t get what they want.\u00a0 A bit of cry-baby blackmail!<\/p>\n

Mr. President, remind how his Dad, the great former Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, on November 6, 1995, at a news conference to launch a new book about Canadian Foreign Policy, The Canadian Way, <\/em><\/strong>warned the then Liberal Government against further centralization of powers to Provincial Governments to keep Quebec within Canada.\u00a0 He predicted that a further weakening of the Federal Government of Canada would kill Canada faster than separatism.\u00a0 And how he played down the importance of formal constitutional recognition of Quebec as a \u2018distinct society\u2019.<\/p>\n

So ask Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, not to get his hands dirty trying to help the Tamil separatist cause, to satisfy his domestic politics – garnering votes, specially\u00a0 from the Tamil community in the Greater Toronto Area and Montreal.\u00a0 Request him to revisit the Meech Lake Accord<\/em><\/strong> and the Charlottetown Accord<\/em><\/strong>, as what is good for Canada should be good for Sri Lanka too.\u00a0 And why both Accords were rejected by Quebec and English Canada at a referendum.<\/p>\n

Mr.President, please ask one of your Political-analysts to study the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords and brief you in simple words.\u00a0 In Sinhala if necessary for your better comprehension.\u00a0 You will have lots of reasons from this study to request Canada to ban the Parliament of TGTE<\/strong> from meeting on Canadian soil.\u00a0 Who knows, they may want to relocate their Parliamentary activities to Timbuktu.<\/p>\n

As a concluding remark, mark my words Mr. President Maithripala Sirisena, the Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)<\/strong> event of 19 January 2018 in Toronto, Canada, is nothing to be ignored. It is no joke. It is serious. The consequences will only be felt by your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

So the ball is in your court to guide their destiny to enjoy and being proud to be Sri Lankans of one Sri Lanka of the whole island, And not a patchwork quilt of parts owned by the Eelamists, China, India or whatever, due to the mismanagement of\u00a0 politicians of their Dad’s and Mom\u2019s generations, and unfortunately, one happens to be their Maithripala Seeya. Good Luck!<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n

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  1. Hon. Ranil; Wickremesinghe, PM of Sri Lanka<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Hon. Tilak Marapana, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

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    1. Ahmad Jawad, High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Canada<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      HE, David McKinnon, Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

      Garnett Genuis, Canadian MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta<\/p>\n

      Chandra Arya, Canadian MP for Nepean, Ontario<\/p>\n

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