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Iranian diplomats disinvited from Canada Day ceremonies
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by albertacowpoke | June 26, 2009 at 02:17 am
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Next Wednesday, Canada Day will be celebrated. It will be the celebration of Canada's 142nd Anniversary as a Federation.
A traditional National celebration is held on Parliament Hill and the Canadian Government normally invites diplomats to partake in this celebration. The celebration is about Freedom and Liberty for all Canadians.
The Harper Government has disinvited diplomats to the celebration for this year as a consequence of the disputed Iranian elections and the regimes actions against protestors.
The Canadian Government is trying to send a strong message to Iran that it is not pleased with the bloody crackdown by the Iranian regime against its own people.
The move comes after the Obama Administration made a similar move for its July 4th celebrations.
The Harper government has disinvited Iranian diplomats from attending Canada Day ceremonies in Ottawa to express its displeasure with the Iranian government's bloody crackdown against opposition supporters.
The move follows a similar one by the U.S. for its July 4th celebrations.
Reporting from Ottawa, CTV's Graham Richardson said the government is "trying to send a signal in a very strong way they are not pleased with what's going on in Iran" following disputed presidential elections.
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at 05:34 on June 26th, 2009
Sad Politics. I must agree though with Harper on this one.
at 06:07 on June 26th, 2009
No sense rewarding bad behaviour.
at 08:35 on June 26th, 2009
Harper is not trying to do the right thing. Harper is merely trying to play "Obama".
Harper's actions are PURE politics than anything else.
When thousands of Tamils are at his feet begging to release a statement to stop the geneocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka, while 30,000 Tamils were being butchered in Sri Lanka, Harper was too busy traveling to Hawaii and avoiding Press meetings and avoiding Canadian Tamil community leaders.
However, this time around in Iran, his heart goes out to the demonstrators it seems.
So much magic Oil can do.
How about the Sri Lankan diplomats? Are they not invited to the party?!! What Harper is trying to do about them ? Sri Lanka, who attacked the Canadian Embassy in Sri Lanka for "harbouring" 300,000 "pro-LTTE" Tamils in Canada?!! The Sri Lankan Sinhalese chuvanists who burned the Canadian Flag for giving asylum to Tamils who have fled the war zones of Sri Lanka previously?!! The Sri Lanka who throw out Bob Rae at the gate to visit Sri Lanka for humanitarian view? The Sri Lanka who still making numerous human rights violations with the 300,000 Tamil IDPs and still has ban on media and aid groups ? When Harper is planning send a strong message to Sri Lanka?
When Canada is going to make up its own mind regarding Human Rights violations without mimicking what US is doing ?
at 09:20 on June 26th, 2009
I support this decision - ususally Harper is quite slow to react, no offense to him..