Peace, order and good government, eh? Nice rights you’ve got there. Be a shame if something happened to them.
Aid experts alarmed by Canada’s new anti-abortion stand in foreign policy have been advised to “shut the f--- up” or risk Prime Minister Stephen Harper taking even more harsh measures!
“We’ve got five weeks or whatever left until G-8 starts. Shut the f--- up on this issue,” Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth told a group of international-development advocates who gathered on Parliament Hill on Monday to sound the alarm about Canada’s hard-right stand against abortion in foreign aid.
“If you push it, there will be more backlash,” Ruth said.
This amounts to a parliamentarian instructing Canadian citizens to shut up on an issue of public policy lest they be punished for taking the wrong position.
Thomas Dowswell
Parry Sound