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Why is it only the good ones seem to leave the LPC?

Please stay Dr. Martin ! The future of free speech in Canada depends on you. You are making a difference.

Just ignore all the Kindergarten antics and keep your eye on the ball.

“David Pretlove, the interim financial director of the Liberal Party of Canada’s Ontario wing, offered to reimburse the Elgin-Middlesex-London Riding Association [EMLFLA ] with party funds if it took no further action against the alleged fraudster, Suzan Pawlak.” - National Post.

Mike Crawley, president of the LPC (Ontario), has this to say about Mr. Pretlove, who allegedly acted without party approval:

“He is an individual of very sound judgment and is a nice person, and unfortunately, the latter characteristic took hold.”

Yes, indeed. Too bad Mr. Pretlove is so nice. That would explain it.

Then we have Ms. Pawlak’s former boss, Gar Knutson, painting a picture of Ms. Pawlak as “a single mother of modest means”, and that:

“It’s out of character, but sometimes good people make bad decisions.”

Oh, please. A single mom who ‘made a bad decision’ has now been arrested for allegedly stealing more than $13,000.

Gee, I mean, it wasn’t her fault right? Weren’t all the cards stacked against her? How did she have a chance? We should have provided a basketball court. We are to blame, not her.

In La-la Liberal land, only guns are bad. People are nice and good.

Obviously, they haven’t learned a thing.

In today’s Post - Vision TV has promised once again to ban broadcasts of Pakistani fundamentalist Israr Ahmad. President and CEO Bill Roberts issued the following statement: “VisionTV profoundly regrets any offence that resulted from Mr. Ahmad’s appearances on our network.”

While VisionTV did not broadcast Mr. Ahmad’s derogatory comments about Jews, or his theories of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, Mr. Roberts said the decision about whether to allow him on Canadian airwaves should have perhaps taken those views into account.

The producer was apparently “distracted” by family matters, including his daughter’s upcoming wedding.

“So the show was pulled and another show was put in its place, but it ended up being a show that also included him [Mr. Ahmad].”

(Maybe the producer should have taken some time off instead of accidentally allowing a purveyor of hate propaganda to have airtime in Canada? Just a thought.)

One of Mr. Ahmad’s followers is, according to the Post, “Qayyum Abdul Jamal, who was arrested last summer for allegedly belonging to a Canadian terrorist group accused of plotting truck bombings in downtown Toronto.”

Vision promises to set up a new task force to review standards and procedures.

Sounds like a start, but if you read today’s editorial in the Post (Hateful Vision), you will see that the whole organization could use a good shaking up to put some balance in its obvious left-wing agenda. The Post points out a double standard in Vision and in our society in general when it come to bigotry:

While we accept that the July 21 broadcast was an accident, the incident fed into existing complaints about the network. Since its inception, VisionTV has shown a pronounced liberal bias. Evangelists have had to pay hefty sums to get their shows on the network — and even then, they have appeared late at night or very early in the morning. Meanwhile, the channel’s own original programming has been dominated by schismatic Catholics (those who favour female ordination, for instance) and United Churchers who question the divinity of Christ or who favour gay marriage.

Canadians also are understandably upset that Mr. Ahmad appeared on VisionTV in the first place. Our society (rightly) has zero-tolerance for traditional Archie Bunker-style racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia. Yet when the same hatred spews forth from someone speaking Arabic or Urdu, the instinct of some liberal Canadians is to permit it (or at least look the other way) in the name of cultural sensitivity.

This relativism comes across as hypocrisy. As you read this, an Albertan youth pastor is facing human rights charges because he disparaged gay activists in a letter to a Red Deer newspaper. What message does it send to this country that such a man must be shut up, while a Muslim who foresees the “total extermination” of Jews has been permitted to preach on a television network available in eight million Canadian households?

Meanwhile, CBC reports that B’Nai Brith Canada has asked Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion to “remove new star candidate Jocelyn Coulon from an upcoming byelection in Montreal’s Outremont riding because of his past stance on Israel” (H/T National Newswatch). Apparently Coulon has a “well-documented anti-Israel bias, which is supposedly “out of step with current Liberal policy”.

Coulon insists he is merely a “proponent of healthy debate” when he writes such things as feeling that the international community should not isolate Hamas; that it is committed to fighting corruption and helping people.

The Gazette reports that MoOse Moghrabi, legal counsel for B’nai Brith’s Quebec region has grave concerns about Coulon:

“His hostile attitude toward Israel, his anti-U.S. rhetoric and his calls to end the isolation of a government controlled by Hamas, a terrorist group banned in Canada, ought to disqualify him as a candidate for the Liberal Party.

“Surely, the Liberals cannot continue to countenance having an individual with such biased views as their point person on foreign policy issues.”

Considering that Outremont has a considerable Jewish population, it should make for an interesting byelection.

Every once in a while I venture into dangerous waters to see what the other side is thinking.

I was pleasantly surprised here.

Reader Paulsstuff wonders if the stage in this 2002 pic isn’t blue? Hard to tell. We’ll have to ask Sheila.

Joel-Denis Bellevance relates a story in La Presse that suggests that the former Liberal government was keenly aware of warnings of torture in Afghanistan (H/T National Newswatch).

This is a translated version of the article, so it reads the way Stephane Dion speaks English, and is therefore somewhat difficult to follow, but well worth the effort.

Bellevance makes the point that the present government is surely to blame for a lot of confusion this week, but the Liberals may not have been lily-white in the affair themselves.

And here’s your weekend quiz courtesy of ChuckerCanuk: Am I a Liberal..?

A reader has just provided me with a few interesting tips and links. I am assuming she wishes to remain anonymous, so I won’t divulge anything other than these little tidbits, which I present to you for your thoughtful consumption.

First we have “RCMP allegedly seized Liberal Party donor lists in March 2005“, by Bill Tieleman.

Also, “Senior Tory Wants Answers“.

And here, “Raids Prompt Revelations of Martin-Campbell Connections.“

I have a colleague working on this as well. There may well be more to follow.