Monday, November 4, 2013

North Korea Hides Behind the UN to Bash Canada--So Why Does the Globe and Mail Make it Sound Like Stephen Harper's "Disdain" for the UN is Off Base?

It must be because, in the G&M's eyes, Harper's "disdain" is off base:
OTTAWA — North Korea, one of the world’s worst human-rights abusers, used a United Nations committee this week to publicly denounce Canada’s rights record. 
The incident is another example of a trend that fuels the Harper government’s disdain for the UN — despotic, rights-abusing countries using the world body as a podium to bash their democratic critics. 
A North Korean diplomat called Canada a land of broken promises, saying Ottawa has no right to criticize others because it has been accused of mistreating immigrants, aboriginal women and children. 
The diplomat was responding to earlier criticism of North Korea by Canada and the United States at Wednesday’s session of the UN’s social, humanitarian cultural affairs committee.
Riiiight--it's only "the Harper government" that "disdains" the UN. Once future former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in charge, you can bet that that "disdain" (which the G&M obviously sees as being a function of Harper's conservatism) will evaporate post haste, and Canada will revert to the Liberal default setting of embracing, not disdaining, the UN.

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