Making Canada Relevant Again

Perterbed and CanWest suddenly are in love with Jennifer Welsh? <br />
<br />
Just wondering out loud. Two stories by or about her, and until today I'd never heard of her . . .<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/stafflist.asp?action=show&person=71">http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/stafflist.asp?action=show&person=71</a><br />
<p>---<br>"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill<br />

Honestly Doc I can't stand her nor her awful ideas...our PM did hire her, so she is a somebody now.

---
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

Let's put it another way, when I see the words "international studies" that's a code for what the elitists want. She mesmerized someone a friend of mine--who does't follow politics and couldn't see the counter arguments. To be fair, I haven't ever been in a lecture of hers, but I feel I can judge here based on her comments in a public paper. Does she write what she believes? I doubt she'd be hired at Oxford unless she believes what she says.

---
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

<blockquote>She says Canada and the United States should harmonize standards and regulations on labelling, workplace health and safety, and the environment to facilitate the free movement of products across our border.</blockquote>Harmonizing anything with the US is a euphemism for surrending sovereign decisions to the US, in other words adopting US policy as our own. Given the USA's dismal record on policy for the regulations she mentions above, I hardly think it is in our best interest to go this route as it would surely mean a degradation in our standards. <blockquote>She rightly condemns formal tariffs and agricultural subsidies that prevent poor countries from exporting their goods to Canada. Eliminating these, at a global level, would do more to help the developing world than any aid package or "new deal" for Africa.</blockquote>Poor countries are not exporting agricultural goods to first world countries (except cash crops grown by multinationals) because they are using them to feed their own people and not because of agricultural subsidies. As for other goods, maybe she hasn't heard about places like China and India having become the slave labor camps for the first world. It is a tired argument that somehow by eliminating tarrifs first world corporations are interested in the welfare of the people they wish to exploit for their own profit. <blockquote>Since moving to Britain three years ago, I have been amazed by the gap between Canadians' perception of our country's importance and just how little anyone outside Canada cares. Prior to the 2003 war in Iraq, for example, Canadian media ran dozens of stories about the "Canadian compromise," which was designed to bridge the gap between those who opposed and those who supported war in Iraq. I don't recall seeing so much as a mention of it in a British newspaper. I believe stopping this slide into deeper global irrelevancy requires a massive change in our priorities, in our military commitments and in our relationship with the United States.</blockquote>She wrongfully equates irrelevancy to what is reported in the media whereas I suspect that we have a great deal of relevancy with governments or could have if we didn't roll over to other governments' priorities. Rather than trying to gain relevancy with military might, Canada should use its economic importance to countries like China (desperate for energy and all other resources) to put human rights, worker rights, labor laws, etc. as conditions for access to such. <p>If this is the type of second rate reasoning we can expect to get from a Rhodes scholar and Oxford professor, then what is the use of having any respect for such institutions?

She`s likely making a pretty pence in Britain. She`s merely being paid to say the right wing corporate elitist mantra. It`s like some Canadian stars going to Hollywood and suddenly not knowing a Canada even exists.

---
Dave Ruston

I don't see China changing. Let's ban raw imports so we can take pride in something and have jobs.

---
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

When an intellectual is totally divorced from the reality of Canadians, are we to trust her judgement? Is what other countries think of us the most important priority? Get a life gal. We decide our priorities and not anyone else. Who we are and what we represent to the world is our decision and not anyone elses. No wonder there is anti-intellectualism is our country if this the result of intellectualism. Give me the reality of "trailor park boys" over this shit. At least it isn't so patronizing.

---
rhondda

<p>Canadians who drink coffee or wear cotton clothing might not appreciate such a ban.</p>

I'm so sorry I meant ban raw EXports.

---
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat

If we want Canada to be a world player,we must stand up for ourselves.That means telling the political flunkies to shove it where the sun don`t shine and bring the corporate criminals inline,building a defence system so we can back up what we say,and yes people this means you,getting off our asses and getting involved!
If we don`t do,we won`t be!