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Democracy, here and there

by Aaron Wherry on Friday, January 28, 2011 10:29am - 74 Comments

On the same day his party releases an ad declaring that an election would “jeopardize our recovery” from recession, Stephen Harper comments on the protests in Tunisia and Egypt.

“Canada supports the transition in Tunisia,” Harper said. “We support the democratic development that is taking place there and obviously want to see that proceed positively.” As for uprisings in Egypt, he said: “We want to see democratic development in that country as well and we’re very supportive of that. At the same time, we want to see that happen in a way that is peaceful and non-violent.”

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Another lefty,

Another moral equivalence between their petty partisan differences within our well functioning democracy,

and the horrid abuses occuring in dictatorial thugocracies.
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I don't know about you, but I appreciated the irony of Canada talking big about democracy and self-determination in Tunisia while visiting Rabat and lauding our relations and free trade negotiations with a country that has been illegally occupying Western Sahara since the end of the Franco era. But remember my friends, this is Canada's new "principled" foreign policy in action, which is completely different from the "cosying up to dictators at the U.N." which used to mark our foreign policy under the other guys, so do try and keep up.