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Originally posted by Claeren@May 22 2005, 04:51 PM
As a member of government he needs to live up to a higher standard.
If he was a private individual go ahead, condemn WWII Japanese actions in whatever terms you'd like.
But as a paid member of parliment representing the diverse interests of thousands of people in his riding? PC language is kind of a no-brainer....
People have every right to be concerned when one party consistantly makes such remarks/mistakes. If members from that party are elected and their Prime Minister is in Germany do Canadians want him going on about 'Nazi bas**rds'? Or on a trade mission to Japanses do we want the local papers talking about how our Prime Minister secretly harbours hate towards 'Jap bas**rds'? Or in South Africa or at the UN going on about how Mandela is nothing but a dirty terrorist?
All might (or not) be valid, they just don't need to be emphased without thought by government representatives.
There is a better and more professional way for an elected official to say that the Japanese made mistakes... for people in the east to hold us to that standard is not unreasonable....
Claeren.
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If your going to live up to this higher standards, then you should be absolutely outraged by the Liberal comments about the KKK, cross burning, Parrishes rants against the Amercans and others.
You should be reaching the same conclusions about the Liberal members as the conservatives.
But as it stands, when a Liberal does it we hear little if anything, hell even an apology is not demanded.
But when a conservative does it, the world comes to an end and we start hearing statements about hatemongering and intolerance.
The Conservatives have to live up to an impossible double standard, that our government doesn't have to.
Thats whats so annoying and frustrating for people like me.
Should he have stated things the way he stated it, probably not, but what he said was not untrue, and was pulled from feelings as opposed to a political agenda, and even though he did apologize on hind site, the topic header was a typically snotty "Replying to More 'tolerance' CPC style", without even looking past that first banner. Its apparent that even if the CPC came out and said they would honour any Liberal deals in case of election, or they came out with a platform of pupppies and money for orphans, it would be ignored because people who support the Liberals are so far sold on thier theory that the CPC are social de-constructuralists who hate everything and everybody and just want to get thier hands on the charter, that they refuse to listen to anything beyond thier own personal theories.
Somehow in Canadian politics, the message has become completely lost, and it has become a battle of style over substance.
You could also say the same thing about CPC supporters and the Liberals in the west, but the Conservatives have attempted reproachment with the East, while the Liberals have abandoned any reproachment with the west.