Ezra Levant continues his casual stroll through crazy extremism. In Monday's Sun, he published this prize example of good old-fashioned racism:
English speakers support America. Chretien is French. Polls in France showed that one-third of French citizens wanted Saddam to win the war. In Canada, Quebec is the only province opposed to the war. Jean Chretien made his choice based on ethnic and cultural tribalism.On how many levels is that idiotic? England's citizens were pretty split on the war before it began... what's the tribal division there? I'm anti-war, and sadly unilingual... "English speakers support America"? WTF? Anglophone cabinet members and MPs have been the ones caught out expressing vaugely anti-Bush sentiments... I haven't heard nearly so much from the Francophone caucas.
Is Ezra pro-war because he's Jewish? I wouldn't have thought so, but it's Ezra who introduced the suggestion of ethnic loyalties, not me.
Whatever Jean Chretien's faults, he leads a government that, by insisting on a UN resolution for war as a precondition of our approval, was following a tradition of nearly sixty years of supporting internationalism through the UN over tribalism. The United States government has unilaterally shredded the internationalist rule of law. By opposing that shredding, the only tribal line Jean Chretien followed was Canadian.
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