contrarianna
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It might have been posted already but this comment piece in the Toronto Star (I don't what page it ended up on) is the best, so far, I've seen in the mainstream media...though I don't believe Kenny is some abberation in the micromanaged Harper government :
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Mar 21, 2009 04:30 AM
Banning British MP a clumsy, dangerous move

Jason Kenney has gone over the edge. The increasingly erratic immigration minister made headlines last week when, in a fit of pique, he cut off funding to an Arab organization that helps newcomers learn English. Now, Kenney has banned British MP George Galloway from entering Canada, on the spurious grounds that he supports Middle East terrorism.

It's a clumsy move, designed presumably to bolster the Conservative government's support among voters who ardently back Israel.

But in a roundabout way it does illustrate how absurdly broad Canada's new anti-terror laws are and how dangerous they can be in the wrong hands...."

http://www.thestar.com/article/606073
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See, as a corrective, to the "it's mainly Kenny" slant, this piece in the Pacific Free Press

"Little Jason Kenney Roars for Likud Lobby in Galloway Ban
Written by Chris Cook   
Saturday, 21 March 2009 10:07

".....
Though I agree with the tone of Walkom's piece, which correctly depicts Kenney and the Conservatives as the idiotic provincials they are, there is nothing "erratic" about the direction Canada has moved under Stephen Harper's leadership. Canada's border police consistently bar anti-war voices from being heard in this country, and their antipathy to any that would criticise the Harper world view, a world view now entirely in disrepute, is unswerving.

Over the last few years, Harper's new government has barred rap singers, folk singers, activists, writers, educators, and now a prominent politician entry into Canada. The one common denominator in these barrings, all made to protect the sensitive Canadian populace from odious and possibly infectious bad ideas emanating from said miscreants, is the anti-militarist, anti-war views these people hold and promulgate publicly.... "

http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/3894-little-jason-kenney-roars-fo...


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