EDITORIAL: Is Ottawa losing its global voice? (Anti-American, Anti-Israeli BARF ALERT!!!)

Toronto (Red) Star ^ | 07/27/06

[Heartofsong83]

Pandering to their leftist base, huh? The Star has a strong anti-Israel bias and is very anti-American.

[MNJohnnie]

Nope. It getting one. The new leadership of Cananda is showing the world it is a serious player on the world stage again. Before the childish platitudes and emotive hysterics flowing from Canada's Leftist Leaders demonstrated they could not be relyed upon as a serious partner in dealing with any global issue.

[fanfan]

Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

[RexBeach]

Canada has a "global voice"? News to me.

[A message]

Nope. It getting one. The new leadership of Canada is showing the world it is a serious player on the world stage again. Before the childish platitudes and emotive hysterics flowing from Canada's Leftist Leaders demonstrated they could not be relied upon as a serious partner in dealing with any global issue.

Ditto to your statement!

[avacado]

"Yet six months later, Harper and the Conservatives appear to be more interested in currying favour with U.S. President George Bush's Republican administration, which is deeply unpopular on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border"

Unpopular on both sides of the fence?

GWB WHIPPED KERRY AND THE DEM AGENDA BY ALMOST 4 MILLION VOTES!

[bert]

Har Har Har....... what global voice.

[Alouette]

G-D BLESS STEPHEN HARPER!!

[CaptainCanada]

But his successor Paul Martin came to power with an eye to repairing Canada-United States relations that were perceived to have become frayed.

Yah????? And how did that go?????

[JamesP81]

Harper was correct in saying Israel has a right to defend itself, but he was wrong not to caution restraint on Israel's part.

Some people are so stupid you honestly wonder how they remember to keep breathing. Winning a war and showing restraint are mutually exclusive. You don't win wars with restraint or measured responses. You win wars by bringing to bear the maximum amount of destructive force in the minimum possible time against your enemy. You bomb him, shell him, shoot him, run him over, even run up to him and beat him with sticks if you have to. But you rain destruction on him until he is utterly and completely defeated. That's how you win a war. You can't do that and show restraint.

[domenad]

What this dope doesn't get is that Canada's voice is actually STRONGER by virtue of the fact that it is now taking action, rather than sitting on the sidelines and criticizing. Before Harper, you didn't need the maple leaf flag. You could have just taken the American flag, inverted the colors, and called that the Canadian flag, because the only identifier of being Canadian was to be the opposite of an American. Now, they are actually moving and effecting a change in the world. As long as they do, I'll be listening when they speak.

[Allan]

I am getting sick and tired of seeing Toronto Star articles
posted as news items or editorials topics almost on a daily basis.

From now on please post them under Political Humour/Cartoons only.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, dear. The left is always up to this - positing that "independence" consists exclusively of a reflexive opposition to whatever the U.S. policy of the moment happens to be. That is, in fact, the very opposite of independence, it is a slavish dependency on somebody else to define one's own political positions. Those are the politics of someone who can't be bothered to think for himself.

For the world needs both a superpower and it needs a peacekeeper.

The two aren't necessarily exclusive categories. But you can see how neatly one slides into the more moral-sounding "peacekeeper" role as long as somebody else assumes the "superpower" one. This particular role, however, requires what the left has consistently starved in Canada - a strong, well-funded military. During that deliberate starvation period the rhetoric was based around another dichotomy - war-lovers vs. peace-lovers. The reality was an enervated, chronically oppositional government with a voice and absolutely nothing else.

[stylin19a]

Is that it's English voice or it's French voice ?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

And Canada can be the peacekeeper

How, by whining impotently about US actions? As an American, Canada barely registers on my radar, but they apparently have some desire to carve out a separate identity by reflexively opposing anything the US does - in this, they appear to be very similar to American leftists.

[sauropod]

Now, increased Canada-U.S. co-operation in Afghanistan, the Mideast conflict and other issues are seen in many parts of the world as eroding Ottawa's role as an honest broker in relations between the White House and countries at odds with U.S. policies.

Since when has Canuckistan ever been an honest broker between the US and anybody?

Examples please.

[Greystoke]

>>Canada has a "global voice"? News to me.

Yes, it sounds like this: Squeek, squeek, squeek...

[Convert from ECUSA]

GAG! This is as bad as the $#*^ in the NY Slimes or Washington Pravda!

[Heartofsong83]

They got much worse, not better...typical Mr. Dithers as he got into trouble with AdScam so he pandered to the anti-American left...

[Catholic Canadian]

I feel the need to remind everyone that the Toronto Star is the paper which is being flaunted on University of Toronto campus to students for 30 cents a copy, marked down from it's newstand price of 75 cents. The Star has hired some desperate kids to walk around and beg people to buy it.

They are so biased they may as well just run the headline "We Hate Jews" on a daily basis.