Iran attacks Canada's human rights record

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

Sat Sep 22 2007

By Steven Edwards



UNITED NATIONS -- In a bid to discredit Canada at the United Nations, Iran is equipping world diplomats with a 70-page booklet on Canada's alleged human rights violations.
Written by Iran "in the name of God," the document asserts that the Canadian government denies its people food, clean water and the right to work.

"Routine unlawful strip and beatings by Canadian police has been a matter of concern for international community," notes the booklet, entitled Report on Human Rights Situation in Canada, adding that "the practice of police is alarming simply because I it is functioning as if there is no need to have judges."

The publication, which claims its allegations are drawn from "objective and factual information released by authentic and credible international sources", alleges that a range of human rights violations occur in Canada, especially toward aboriginal peoples and immigrants.



Read more: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/story/4043978p-4...

[davidinalameda]

1. whatever

I think that Canada has done a bit more than Iran to clean up its human rights record

when Iran stops killing gays, then maybe they'll have a bit of moral high ground to preach from

[Captain Angry]

2. He's just referring to the torture that is Leafs hockey of the last few years.

Zing!

[BobTheSubgenius]

3. As one with more than passing familiarity with the Canadian Experience...

...having lived here since Christ was a lance corporal, I'm surprised that I've never heard of these 'routine' abuses.

Oh, yeah. "right to work" is Rightspeak for union-busting here.

[kitty1]

4. Last I checked, we didn't go around stoning women to death....

because of adultery. Rules also specify the size of the stones being thrown so that death is painful and not imminent.
Strip and beatings; bullshit. And the vast majority of immigrants are treated with dignity and fairness. That's rich coming from a nation where people would rather escape from than immigrate to.
The Aboriginal issues are there though, and that will take more work and time.
Nobody is denied clean water food or work where that I've heard of.
Maybe someone should ask Ahmadinejan about the secret prisons around Tehran where political dissidents are exposed to extreme psychological and physical torture. We don't do torture here in Canada.

[ohio2007]

7. You should respect their honorable traditions

they are not savages
It is we that are the savages with our "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" immoral ways

/sarc

[Purveyor]

5. CanWest News Service....israeli propaganda machine. eom

[JBoy]

8. Good point

On this subject, they are like Fox talking about *.

[Stella_Artois]

10. Probably another mistranslation too

This document probably praises Cananda and says that whole stoning of people thing was just a huge misunderstanding.

[Judi Lynn]

12. I see what you mean! I went to check it out and immediately found the following:

Sunday, May 21, 2006
CanWest and the Lobby

A kind reader alerted me to this item about the present owners of the National Post that tried to float the black psy-ops operation charging Iran with requiring religious minorities to wear "badges". This item is from before they owned the National Post, but there is no reason to think their policies have changed: The CanWest Chill: "We do not run in our newspaper Op Ed pieces that express criticism of Israel". It goes on:

' The 7 December 2001 broadcast of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's As It Happens uncovered a disturbing example of corporate and political interference in freedom of the press. The program reported on a new editorial policy directive from CanWest Global, a leading Canadian media conglomerate, that impairs readers' ability to make up their own minds about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, among other issues.

As It Happens reported that over two dozen journalists at the Montreal Gazette have pulled their bylines to protest a new policy imposed by the newspaper's owners, Southam Newspapers Inc, which is owned by CanWest Global.

The new policy requires the company's main local newspapers to run editorials written at headquarters in Winnipeg by Southam Editor-in-Chief Murdoch Davis.

Bill Marsden, an investigative reporter at the Montreal Gazette, noted that up to 156 times a year -- about three times a week -- the editorial would be imposed and that the remainder of locally-written editorials would be required to reflect the viewpoints and stances taken by the paper's corporate headquarters.
(snip/...)

http://www.juancole.com/2006/05/canwest-and-lobby-kind-...

[0007]

14. Ya just hit a 'home run'

and yet these sly ways of getting one to hate another is obviously out there.

[ohio2007]

6. I thought they only hated the great satan ? Well, we know they do hate Canadian reporters

don't we

[Igel]

11. That's during the week.

On the weekends they go after the lesser satans.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. I'll give him

The treatment of Indians (aboriginal people) in Canada - just as I will give anyone in the world the treatment of Indians (aboriginal) in the United States. Criticize both our countries all you want (I'm part Cherokee so I have a leaning towards Native issues) . . .

But everything else is baloney. I went to University right on the Canadian border (like over the Niagara River Gorge border)and have spent more than enough time in Canada. They are a pleasant and joy to visit. Oh - and their 'Mounties' - wow! HOT!

[JBoy]

13. Immigrants in Canada are treated quite fairly, I'd say

Not only can an immigrant become an RCMP officer, they've adjusted their uniform code to accommodate their religious beliefs. Over to you, Iran.

[ohio2007]

15. Iranians shell Kurdish villages

across the Iraqi border because they deny the Kurds a right to their former tribal homelands that have been divided up among several nations today.

/screed

speaking of human righs abuses;
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01c_1190543983
and you think our cops using Taser guns is unusual