Queen's Park Shows Leadership Against Destructive Campaign Against Israel

 

Will our members of Parliament follow the leadership of PC MPP Peter Shurman? Peter Shurman was able to unite ALL political parties and MPP's in our Ontario Legislature to admonish the destructive monologue on our University Campuses?

We will we squander the Olympic Spirit and return to gutter politics when our Federal leaders return to Ottawa?

Shurman gets Queen's Park to unite

Shurman, the member from Thornhill, moved a resolution to condemn the now annual event on Canadian campuses known as Israeli Apartheid Week,
“I want to be clear about what it is I’m trying to do,” Shurman said. “I want the name changed. It’s that simple. It’s just wrong.”
Shurman said he had no objection to people criticizing Israel, or debating the thorny issues of Palestinians and the occupied territories.
“My problem is the name,” he said. “Israeli Apartheid Week is not dialogue, it’s a monologue. The name is hateful, it is odious and that’s not how things should be in my Ontario. It’s a term that frankly I’m sick of hearing. Get rid of this word apartheid.”

Bad word banned

Legislature passes Tory MPP’s condemnation of ‘apartheid’

By JONATHAN JENKINS, QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU
Apartheid is an ugly word that just shouldn’t be used, Progressive Conservative MPP Peter Shurman said Thursday.
And he got all of Queen’s Park to agree.
Shurman, the member from Thornhill, moved a resolution to condemn the now annual event on Canadian campuses known as Israeli Apartheid Week,
“I want to be clear about what it is I’m trying to do,” Shurman said. “I want the name changed. It’s that simple. It’s just wrong.”
Shurman said he had no objection to people criticizing Israel, or debating the thorny issues of Palestinians and the occupied territories.
“My problem is the name,” he said. “Israeli Apartheid Week is not dialogue, it’s a monologue. The name is hateful, it is odious and that’s not how things should be in my Ontario. It’s a term that frankly I’m sick of hearing. Get rid of this word apartheid.”

The resolution passed with unanimous support from both the Liberals and the New Democratic Party.

Will Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Stephen Harper, Gilles Duceppe join in passing an unanimous resolution and join the Ontario legislature in sending a message?

Additional Reading:

http://gayandright.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-on-yorks-universitys-one-sided.html

Liberal Leader Farewell University Tour: Trivial Game Partner & Book Reviewer

The Liberal Leader is embarking on an 11-stop, cross-country tour of colleges and universities, as the first step in a bid to putting his fortunes back on track. The tour kicks off in Halifax, lands in Toronto and Hamilton at mid-week, and will find him in British Columbia by the weekend. Canadians think Michael Ignatieff would make a great trivia game partner and book reviewer!

Is Michael seeking references on his 11-stop cross-country farewell tour, after failing at securing support in his grassroots, improve the finances and standing. Michael is the fourth leader in five years who had to be annointed after being rejected by the grassroots.

 

On the Adult issues including negotiating on the enviroment, unity: Canadians have found the Prime Minister the leader of the pack. If we need a book recommendation Michael is our favourite. It is great to know all that education will come to good use if necessary.

The Liberal Party is unrecognizable as the natural governing party that  the older among us still remember. The rot, as some have observed, actually began to set in as far back as 1957, when John Diefenbaker eked out a minority government in part by virtually shutting the Liberals out of the West. The party became a stranger to everyone west of Ontario; it remains a stranger to this day. In 1984, the same thing happened in the former bastion of Quebec. In the francophone ridings outside of Montreal and (what is now) Gatineau, Brian Mulroney's (Progressive Conservatives swept the province. The Liberals have never recovered. Rather than uniting to bridge Canada's regional political divides, the Liberals engaged in more than twenty year of internal bickering and insurgency, demostrating the ver worst aspects of an elite-driven party estragned from the and indifferent toward the electorate.

The Liberals' great strength in the 1990's was its hold on Ontario and Montreal. During the years of schism on the right, it enabled Chreetien to compile successive minority goverrnents. But in 2004, a reunited Conservative Party began eroding the Liberals' base of support in Ontario. Today, the Liberal Party of Canada commands the political loyalties of voters in the country's three biggest cities - Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.  Order the book cheap here.


It is a good thing Michael Ignatieff announced his university tour months after Oktoberfest. Cheers!