FrontPageMagazine.com | February 14,
2002
SOMETIMES I am so embarrassed to live in Canada. I
really think I might have to move to the U.S. soon.
We
just had a new Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by the Liberal
government. His name is Bill Graham.
Guess who Bill Graham is?
He is a Member of Parliament and a former Law
Professor at the University of Toronto who is notorious for having been
involved in the gay sex trade. And he engaged in this activity as a married
man with two children.
Lawrence Metherel, a
former teen male prostitute, has long ago disclosed that he had a sexual
relationship with Graham dating back to 1980, when Metherel was 15 years old.
In a recent interview with a Canadian magazine, Metherel said that, for 15
years, Graham provided him with regular support payments of up
to $1,500 a month.
Like how do you even take a guy like Graham seriously?
How does an individual like this even get appointed to
his position?
Does the Prime Minister sit in Cabinet and say: �Ok,
we need Bill Graham to be the new Foreign Affairs Minister.�
And then someone says, �You mean Bill Graham who was
involved in the gay sex trade?�
And then the Prime Minister says, �Yeah.�
And then everyone nods and agrees?
I don�t get it.
Oh yeah, I forgot: Canada is really tolerant.
What I still respect about America is that, despite
the reality of Bill Clinton, Bill Graham would never be appointed Secretary of
State. Graham knows that � and that�s why he hates America. That explains why,
immediately upon taking office, he announced that Americans were bad and
Canadians were good. He boasted that, "We have been able to become a
multicultural society where we are able to be more tolerant with one another
than the Americans ever have had to do, inside their own country, and when it
comes to outside they feel that they can have their will."
Wow, I bet that old Bill
never minds when someone tries to interfere in his personal �will� in his
private life, right?
Canada now has a Foreign Affairs Minister whose
credentials basically involve an undying obsession with promoting same-sex
marriage legislation. In his latest round of activism, Graham supported
a same-sex marriage bill that
emphasized that Valentine's Day was �a perfect time to remind Parliament that
the relationships of gay and lesbian people are just as strong, just as
loving, just as worthy of full recognition and respect and celebration as
those of heterosexuals.�
Let me get this straight: Valentine�s Day is a
�perfect time� to trivialize the sacredness of the nuclear family unit? It�s a
perfect time to minimize the importance of children having, as an optimum
ideal, both a father and a mother in their lives?
I just don�t get it.
So who is actually going to take Graham seriously?
Picture being the President of the United States and meeting with this guy to
discuss some international crisis. When Graham starts talking about Palestine
or something, could you even pay attention to what he was saying? How
seriously can you take an old man who is married and has two children but has
simultaneously had, and still might have, a 15-year-old
boyfriend?
If you were sitting in a room with Graham and he was
going on about nuclear weapons proliferation, wouldn�t you be nervously eyeing
the various emergency exits � just in case you had to make a run for it if,
well, you know, Bill made a move on you or something like that? Wouldn�t it
also be ridiculous that you had to wear running shoes with your suit? And
you�d have to wear running shoes because, well, you know, just to make sure
that you got away as fast as you could in case Billy ran after you.
And what kind of small talk would you make with this
guy between foreign policy talks? If he asked you about your wife and kids,
would you ask him about his wife and kids � or about some guy named Jerome?
What if he actually started talking about Jerome? Would you want to hear it?
I can see it now, Bill saying to Colin Powell, �Oh, I
kicked Jerome out. I didn�t feel he was contributing enough, and besides, he
was very verbally abusive.�
What would Powell say after Graham said this? Would he
nod like he understood?
I just don�t know.
But Canada has a new Foreign Affairs
Minister.
Wonderful.
