If a Catholic political leader happened to be at rally with posters glorifying Irish Republican Army terrorists, he would almost certainly get these questions, too.Welll...
This forum is called "Canadian Politics". The US indifference to terrorism, until it started hitting them, is not relevant to the discussion. And Ted Kennedy did get plenty of heat in the UK over that.
Well, Robyn Urback made a statement about how a Catholic politician would be regarded if they appeared to endorse the IRA. Since I can't think of any Canadian Catholic politicians who have had anything to do with the IRA in living memory, the only real way I can think of to test the statement is to analogize from another country. If you can think of any Canadian politicians who would prove or disprove the point, I'd be happy to hear about them.
As for Kennedy getting a lot of heat in the UK(his honorary knighthood aside), well, yes, but in this comparison, the UK would be analagous to India(ie the country facing an insurgency), not Canada. I assume that Urback meant to suggest that Singh should be criticized in Canada, not India.
Teddy would have taken heat from the UK just for being an Irish Catholic who happened to be politically powerful.