One of the principal talking points of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his supporters in the federal election campaign that is now for all intents and purposes under way is that the Conservatives are statesmanlike and mature, while Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is a crazy kid who could do or say anything and NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is an angry old man.
But when the media’s not around, nobody can match our Conservatives for recklessly immature and angry rhetoric.
Indeed, listening to a recent speech to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress by Chris Alexander, Canada’s minister of citizenship and immigration, one gets the feeling that the grownups are no longer in charge in Ottawa, and that the people who are running things are in the middle of a tantrum with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Mr. Alexander spoke to the group on Feb. 22 in Toronto, apparently with no reporters in the room. Leastways, there seems to have been no mainstream media coverage. From a video of his remarks posted by the Congress on Youtube.com, which at this writing has been viewed only about 100 times, he spoke without notes, and without the restraint one might expect from a former diplomat.
Even given the degree of hyperbole associated with politicians speaking privately to groups of potential wedge voters, Mr. Alexander’s remarks are surprisingly unbalanced for a rising young star in the Harper Cabinet. Moreover, there is at least one apparent gap in the video, and one wonders what might have been said during that gap – which we can’t know, of course.
Mr. Alexander begins with an over-the-top broadside at Russian President Vladimir Putin: “We know as you know that Vladimir Putin is only going to face his comeuppance, that his whole mad nightmare is only going to come apart at the seams, when the whole world is standing against him, with every option on the table, denouncing his illegal action and standing with Ukraine, with military assistance, and every other form of assistance.”
READ MORE: http://albertapolitics.ca/2015/03/citizenship-and-immigration-minister-chris-alexander-delivers-a-troubling-speech-on-ukraine/
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A very revealing article about Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander's speech to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in Toronto on Feb. 22. His Cold ...War rhetoric is frightening enough, but wait until you read who followed him as a speaker - Andriy Parubiy, founder in 1991 of the Ukranian Social-National Party, now called "Svoboda".
http://albertapolitics.ca/…/citizenship-and-immigration-mi…/
In case you don't know the Social-National Party, here are some images of the party founded by the man Chris Alexander shared the stage with last month.
In case you don't know the Social-National Party, here are some images of the party founded by the man Chris Alexander shared the stage with last month.
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