The Hypocrisy of the Canadian Government
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:41:59 -0700
J�Accuse
By Paul Watson. www.seashepherd.com
The Hypocrisy of the Canadian Government
The Canadian government has been making
plenty of accusations against seal defenders. They
have even gone so far as to fabricate lies that they
actually then appear to believe.
For example, Canadian Minister of Natural
Resources John Efford debated Captain Paul Watson on
the seal slaughter in April.
Captain Watson was on his ship at sea off
the coast of Newfoundland and Efford was at his desk
in Ottawa.
Efford is the former Newfoundland Minister
of Fisheries who publicly has advocated the
extermination of the seals.
During the debate, Efford was not
interested in talking science or facts concerning the
seal hunt. He did not want to talk about seals at all.
Instead he accused Captain Watson of raising millions
of dollars and stuffing it in offshore bank accounts.
He then called Captain Watson a coward for refusing to
debate him.
Captain Watson said that he had never
refused to debate the Minister and demanded that
Efford set a time and place and he would meet him
there. Efford ignored the challenge and went on to
talk about how seal defenders were gorging themselves
on lamb and veal on the Farley Mowat while protesting
the killing of seals and called the hunt opponents
hypocrites.
When Captain Watson pointed out that the
Farley Mowat was a vegan ship and meat and fish were
not served in the ship�s galley, Efford plucked
ignored that response and immediately plucked another
fabrication from his propaganda kit. Captain Watson
also demanded that the Minister produce evidence
before making accusations of hoarding money in
offshore accounts. "Do you think," said Captain Watson
to Efford, "that it is responsible for a Federal
Minister to be making unsubstantiated accusations?
Efford refused to answer.
It was a bizarre debate. What struck
Captain Watson about Efford is that he appeared to
actually believe everything he was saying.
Captain Watson pointed out that Sea
Shepherd finances were an open book and that the Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society was not a wealthy
organization. In fact it is a rather small
organization with fewer than one million dollars in
contributions annually and most of the budget is spent
on the operation of our ships.
Captain Watson also pointed out that it
was interesting that such bogus accusations were being
made by a Minister of the most scandal ridden and
corrupt government in Canadian history. Canadians knew
what Captain Watson was referring to without him
having to explain the details.
For non-Canadians, this is a little primer
on the current elected members of the Canadian
government.
Can you imagine working for a company that has a
little more than 300 employees and has the following
statistics:
30 have been accused of spousal abuse.
9 have been arrested for fraud,
14 have been accused of writing bad cheques.
95 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2
businesses.
4 have done time for assault.
55 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.
12 have been arrested on drug related charges.
4 have been arrested for shoplifting.
16 are currently defendants in lawsuits.
62 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last
year.
Such is the record of the 301 Members of the Canadian
Parliament.
This same Parliament unanimously endorses
the annual slaughter of seals. In other words we can
find 62 drunk drivers in the Parliament of Canada and
not one compassionate defender of seals. One third of
all Members of Parliament have bankrupted a business
and now are in charge of managing Canadian resources
including the fisheries.
The statistics listed above do not even
include the $100 million Canadian Unity slush fund
that the Liberal government of Canada used to pay
bribes and provide �incentives� for Liberal members of
Parliament, including shopping sprees for the wife of
former Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
The good news is that The Liberal
government of Prime Minister Paul Martin is not
expected to survive next week�s vote of confidence on
the Canadian budget. It looks like there will be a
Canadian Federal election this summer. The bad news is
that the same group of losers may all get re-elected.
Why because the government of Canada simply does not
attract people with the education, skills and talent
to hold down a real job.
However, the election will be an
opportunity to see where the candidates stand on the
issue of killing seals.
Of all the political parties in Canada
only the Federal Green Party has a policy of
opposition to the seal hunt.
Captain Paul Watson said, �I am not
speaking for Sea Shepherd because this is a political
issue but I am speaking as a Canadian when I say that
Canadians should not contribute to or support
pro-sealing candidates and should encourage those
candidates who are prepared to oppose this obscenity
that has given Canada such a bad reputation around the
world.�
Paul Watson elaborated by saying, �I know
that governments should not be elected or defeated on
single issues but the seal slaughter is an issue that
reflects the morality of the candidates involved. What
kind of person could endorse the senseless, cruel
clubbing of helpless baby seals? The answer is the
same type of person who abuse their spouses, write bad
checks, drive under the influence, commit assault and
fraud and run businesses into the ground � in other
words, the irresponsible and egotistical Parliamentary
members who have so shamefully sold out Canada to line
their own pockets at the expense of the people and the
nation. These are not the kind of people we need
protecting our forests, our fisheries, our wilderness
and the economy. Unfortunately these are the kind of
people we�ve got. It�s time to throw the bums out and
bring in more responsible and more compassionate
people with integrity and a sense of responsibility to
the future.
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