Ezra Levant Mark Steyn Love Fest in Ottawa
October 31, 2010 10:15 am Canadian Politics, Freedom of Speech, Islam and the WestLast night the faithful assembled to hear Mark Steyn laud Ezra Levant for the work he has done combatting bolshevism in Canada. Sorry, the suppression of free speech by Muslim zeaots and their allies on the leftist Human Rights Commissions. The event was under the auspices of Joseph Ben-Ami, who heads the Canadain Centre for Policy Studies. Bravo to all the organizers!
[Politically incorrect aside: how pleasant it is to see Orthodox Jews in the folds of the conservatives. When I went to university the vast majority of Jews were either various shades of Marxist or pretending to be progressives. A Jewish conservative was unimaginable.]
Father DeSouza gave the grace. Arnie of Blazing Cat Fur and Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury, Deborah Gyapong, Fred Litwin of Gay and Right , Doctor Roy and many other bloggers were in attendance. The audience varied from teetotalling protestants from up the Ottawa Valley to gay beyond belief to orthodox Jews, to me, your humble scribe, the would-be Christopher Hitchens of the right. Conservatism is a broad tent, and a generally intelligent one.
Mark Steyn is a firebrand. I had not quite realized how effective is his moral outrage until I had heard him last night. And he makes you think. Consider this: why does it seem strange that Mark Steyn has not been made a Governor General while Michaelle Jean was? Both are journalists. One was a separatist, the other not. Why is Jennifer Lynch, she of the CHRC, archduchess of thought repression, covered with every bauble handed out by the state – Order of Canada, Queen’s Counsel – while Ezra Levant is unrewarded and controversial? It takes this kind of radical questioning of assumptions to force even us conservatives to see exactly how far left are the social assumptions of modern Canadian society.
Steyn ripped into the leftist assumptions of Canadian society and the Muslim menace with bravado, wit and deep moral conviction.
I wish you had been there.
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Dalwhinnie
Pissedoff :
Date: October 31, 2010 @ 1:16 PM
How about Harper, he who put Lynch where she is, he who won’t fire her, he who let her hire thugs and an ex bent copper, he who let her stamp her jackboots all over Canada’s war memorial not to honour Canadian dead but that other bunch of thugs UN human rights act.
Harper who refuse to get rid of s 13 and has actually grown the CHRC budget. The left might be bad but as a conservative I am pissed that an alledged Conservative PM is as bad when it comes to human rights in this country. Especially as his statement that HRCs are dangerous to freedom of speech, said before getting his first minority and one of the reasons I voted tory then.
Blair Atholl :
Date: October 31, 2010 @ 2:22 PM
The would-be Christopher Hitchens of the right? Help me out here.
Dalwhinnie :
Date: October 31, 2010 @ 5:21 PM
Dear Pissedoff:
I do not understand it either.
Blair Atholl:
You know – brilliant, well-received,published ubiquitously, holding forth over expensive wines, but not dying of throat cancer.
MariaS :
Date: October 31, 2010 @ 6:53 PM
Yes… I wish I had been there too. Unfortunately, monetary restrictions and car-less status keeps me married to my couch.
And, I am in full agreement with Pissedoff. The PM has become an enemy of free speech by keeping Section 13 alive and kicking. He is less of a Conservative and more of an appeaser of the Left.
Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch :
Date: November 2, 2010 @ 5:04 AM
The big question is, of course, given a majority, will Mr. Harper betray us? In Halifax recently, when I lisped out my childish hopes for the Tory imperium – less spending and a review of immigration policy – I was read the reality act by a long-time fixer, Liberal as it chanced but party truly does not matter in this analysis, who simply said that Mr. Harper is just another politician. He went on to say that I and the other knuckle-draggers would be sadly disappointed in the performance of a Harper majority, and serves us right for being such simpletons as to think that a Canadian politician would stray so far from the electorate as to rein in spending and restrict residence and citizenship of this country to those worthy of it. Something to think about. Something else to think about. Given the success of the Tea Party, the time to revive the Reform Party might be now, rather than later.
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