Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Harper's Conservatives have nothing but contempt for the UN, as evidenced by the comments of many Conservative supporters about the UN on this site, for example. So we shouldn't be all that surprised when our attempts to get a seat in the powerful arm of the UN was rebuffed.
Blaming Iggy was just incredibly petty. The Conservatives have been in power for several years now and yet they still act like the official Opposition--blaming everything on the other parties. Bush league stuff. Almost as bush league as the "We're taking our ball and going home" response to the loss.
Blaming Iggy was silly and petty.
Even the Tories eventually realised that, but Iggy was being partisan and petty prior to the vote. Two wrongs don't make a right but the Liberals haven't looked good out of this either.
It's just another example of the second-hand car sales tactics that are prevalent on both sides of the House.
That said Harper has since come out and acknowledged the real reasons for our getting edged out by Portugal. Cannon needs a kick up the arse.
Even Harper saw that Canadians were well aware of the real issues at play and it wasn’t just another petty partisan point of debate.
It was down to the various blocs, the EU, the Islamic bloc and the UAE all played their part, although I think Canada's support for Israel over-shadowed our current spat with the UAE. Iggy and the UAE didn't help but we can't blame either of them, they just stoked the fire a bit more.
Of course Harper is pissed off we didn't get an SC seat, I would have liked to see that but not at the cost of joining the Jew-haters and further funding corrupt African regimes.
The way it all played out, the lies and the double-dealing make the loss of face more bearable. To lose because of global petty politics, anti-Semitism and dis-enfranchised African despots who are pissed we are not funding their next BMW fleet is nothing to be ashamed of.
On the UN, I agree, most Tories have contempt for that Org, and for good reason Zip.
I can't see anything good coming out of there these days. Please do educate me on the positive role of the current UN as I'm just not seeing it. We haven't committed large scale assets to the UN for 20 years and we have been eclipsed since the late 1980's as peacekeepers by such nations as Bangladesh, Fiji, Nigeria and Pakistan. They see peacekeeping as a way to make money.
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