Shameful Canadian of the Day - September 27

Today we step away from the shame that our elected officials have brought to Canadians and focus on an appointed official – Bob Rae, the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations.  Approximately 75% of UN delegates left the room when Netanyahu rose to speak.  Bob Rae remained seated.  He chose to welcome a war criminal.  Canada is obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he appears on Canadian soil, but Bob Rae remained seated.  Would he have remained seated for Hitler as he described his plans for the Holocaust?
He said he remained because -  ‘That’s my job.”  Where have we heard that before? 
No doubt Rae’s marching orders came from above – from Mark Carney.  But people of principle don’t simply,  “Follow orders.”   They do not collaborate.  And Bob Rae chose to collaborate. And by doing so made all Canadians collaborators.
Netanyahu’s flight to the United Nations had to be carefully routed to avoid landing in European countries where he would have been arrested for war crimes. However, we can be sure a layover in Toronto wouldn’t have been a problem – Canada has decided to stand with Israel and the United States in support of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 
Much smaller less influential countries than Canada have chosen not to collaborate.  Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro had his US visa revoked because he called for a ‘global force to free Palestine’.  But Bob Rae cannot rise from his seat in protest of the genocide in Gaza.  There was applause for Netanyahu’s speech from those who remained –  Bob Rae was likely among those applauding.  Rae, with Carney’s blessing, joins the list of notorious collaborators such as Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval.  And Canada continues to play “the Vichy” to Israel’s Nazi Germany.

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