Updated: We turn our backs on thee -- Jean D'Arc St. Germaine -- Maha Elsamnah - Khadr -- in an election year?

Update: a reader has commented on this post from November 11, 05: PM to Skip Commonwealth Summit, Peguis Reserve, "Refugees", Earnscliffe, CSL, PM & Pre-election "Budget"?



One veteran remembers Jean D'Arc St. Germaine

Oh Canada: We turn our backs on thee Barrhaven Independent/Manotick Messenger/Prescott Journal , Nov. 9, 2005, page 6 by Jeffrey Morris via CNEWS Forum

[. . . . ] Occasionally, [Bruce] Vallance, who now lives in Winnipeg, prods and presses his body and small pieces of glass covered in calcium deposits will poke out of him. They have been in his body since a bomb went off in his Canadian Forces Headquarters office in Ottawa during the FLQ crisis close to 40 years ago. The bomb was meant to kill, and it was meant to send a message. It did both. He remembered this vividly when he saw the clips of Mme. Jean toasting separatism in a film made by her husband, Daniel LaFond. He thinks of the even more appalling 1994 film in which LaFond collaborated with Francis Simard called "La Liberte en colere". Simard was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1970 murder of Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte. In 1982, Simard was given early parole. Vallance, Laverty and many other veterans feel that LaFond romanticized Simard's crime and helped turn him into a hero in Quebec.

[. . . . ] The lady they killed was not only a co-worker but also my friend, Jean D'Arc St. Germaine.

Check for it -- Brian McKenna, I believe -- but it may have disappeared -- election year errors and all that

Hello Canada, goodbye terror Geoff Matthews, Ottawa Sun, Nov. 12, 05

[. . . . ] Maha Elsamnah wants us all to be shocked at the treatment of her 19-year-old son Omar Khadr, a suspect in the murder of a U.S. army medic who is being held in a military jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

This would be the same woman who last year proudly proclaimed to a television interviewer her pride in the actions of her martyred husband, who died in a firefight with Pakistani troops along the Afghan border. [. . . . ]

This is the same Elsamnah who, in a CBC documentary, said [. . . . ]

Why were they ever allowed to return to Canada -- for all of its benefits and obviously, none of what should be the responsibilities of a Canadian citizen?

Of course, if a government imports voters then . . .

There's a push for immigration this election year -- more of the same? Sends the right signals to immigrant communities? The "stakeholders"?

How do relatively recent Canadian citizens get their jobs on the IRB and become "stakeholders" anyway? I want one of those. Is this another one of the PM / PMO's perqs -- getting to pad the IRB with proven Liberals . . . ?

Email: geoff.matthews@ott.sunpub.com
Email: Paul Martin and MP's and tell them what you think -- link in the menu at left

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