How many more final straws does the United Nations have to pile onto Canada’s back before it packs up and pulls out?
Last week, as Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was in Paris with the 100-nation Friends of Syria collective, all to discuss stronger sanctions against the murderous regime of Bashar al-Assad, this same murderous regime is in line to be handed seat on the United Nations’ Human Rights Council.
We wish this were a sick joke, but it’s not.
Instead, it’s a sick reality.
If our mothers were correct that we are indeed judged by the company we keep, we cannot help but wonder why Canada remains the seventh-largest contributor to this global dog’s breakfast when it is chock-a-block with despots and crackpots who have little or no regard for humanity.
So why not get out and get out now, and align ourselves more intensely with NATO and other democratic organizations.
In the past decade, the UN’s Human Rights Council — which slags Canada relentless — has elected the now-dead Col. Moammar Gaddafi as its chair, and even called an emergency session to mourn the death of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder of the Hamas terrorist movement.
It is time Canada got out. As in now.
Categories: General
We profit nothing from belonging to this organization which treats every nation on earth exactly alike, free, authoritarian, wealthy, poor, internationally compliant, and rogue. The fact that Iraq in 2002-2003 was chair of the UN Disarmament Committee and Lybia chaired its Human Rights Committee at the same time, are proof positive that the UN assumes every nation on earth is equally ready to lead in the global arena and this everybody knows to be false.
Canada pays 400 million annually to the UN, money which it could instead funnel through CIDA and see better results. That the majority of UN membership is developing and authoritarian, means that they do not need yet another forum for useless dialogue or a stage upon which to front outlandish behaviour as Khadaffi and Ahmadinejad did/do, they need direction and examples to follow. Their own regional groupings like the Arab League, Organization for African Unity are their own and they can do all the blathering they like there.
The world’s leadership should be exercised by NATO countries militarily or by G8 nations. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court already handles global justice cases.
So given the scandal ridden farce that the UN has become, the real question should be “does anyone need the UN?”
Bono nails it. For so many years, Canada should have scraped the UN off the bottom of our shoe and walked away. Professional politicians keeping themselves on the public teat at all costs. A complete and utter disgrace.
The U.N. is an odd organization. It’s internal rules make one’s head ache. It sometimes elicits nausia.
Maybe it has to go the way of the League of Nations.
Maybe not. Some of it works. Sometimes talking, or having an opportunity to talk, is better than nuking somebody.
One thing about free speech is allowing people, and governments the opportunity to say some rather objectionable things in our view.
Some governments choose to communicate in ways we find objectionable. If we censure them – what does that say about our version of freedom?
Being free takes a lot of work.
A robust society survives and is strengthened by diversity and vigilance and diligence, never by caveat or by avoidance of conflict.
Pick sides with care in any dispute, if at all.