By

Ira de Silva

Canada has overtaken other pro-LTTE groups against Sri Lanka as the current Canadian Government is being “guided/dictated to” by the LTTE front organisations in Canada on it’s policy on Sri Lanka. It is now the Canadian Government that is pushing the LTTE agenda.

The current government’s main organiser of the so-called ethnic vote is the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, Jason Kenney. His main focus, is the Greater Toronto Area, where thirteen parliamentary seats are available to whichever political party offers the “ethnic vote” what they want most.

In short, Canadian politicians do not act on principles or democratic values which they claim to do but on carrying out the goals of ethnic minorities even if it is of those who support terrorism like the LTTE. This has been the policy of successive Canadian governments who helped Canadian Tamils to terrorise Sri Lanka. Mr. Kenney is just taking it to a new high.

Minister Kenney visited Sri Lanka on January 6, 2013. While in Sri Lanka he carried the message of his “handlers”, the LTTE of Toronto, led by Ragavan Paranchoty to the Government of Sri Lanka. On his return he met with the Tamils on January 26th in a hotel in Markham, Ontario. Although his office claimed that it was with Sri Lankan media, the meeting was exclusively for the Tamils to report back on his success/failure in promoting the LTTE demands on Sri Lanka. In Mr. Kenney’s own words on Twitter “Did Tamil media roundtable to review my recent trip to Sri Lanka”.

At his meeting with his LTTE supporters on January 26th he confirmed his government’s policy when he said his “government acted against it’s own domestic interests in “helping” Colombo by banning the LTTE”. He further said that because Canada had banned the LTTE Sri Lanka should now “reciprocate” by doing what Canada wants – in other words he believes that Canada can dictate to Sri Lanka. This is the country that shouts to the world that it is against terrorism and believes in democratic values. This is the country that helped the LTTE terrorise Sri Lanka for decades.

It illustrates how unprincipled the Canadian Government as well as the other political parties in Canada are. They, like the other “white” colonial powers who ravaged, murdered, massacred and robbed every country they colonised, have now got together to carry on their colonialist attitude in a new format. They have banded together to carry on their murderous campaigns in various parts of the world, to continue to ravage and plunder countries and kill thousands for their own benefit all in the name of democracy and “human rights” – concepts which they have absolutely no regard for.

The Sri Lankan government should wake up to the fact that Canada is not a friend of Sri Lanka as claimed by them. Canada by it’s own admission are just the spokespersons of the LTTE supporters in Canada. Their anti-Sri Lanka rhetoric should be challenged based on the statements by Minister Kenney on his return to Canada. It should be conveyed to Canada that Sri Lanka is not a colony of Canada, and that those whose votes they are seeking in Canada do not represent the people of Sri Lanka.

If Canada can call in the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Ottawa to be aggressive and belligerent in it’s dictates to Sri Lanka based on Mr. Kenney’s visit to Sri Lanka, it is high time Colombo called in the Canadian High Commissioner in Colombo and asked for an explanation of Minister Kenney’s statement that because Canada “helped” Sri Lanka by banning the LTTE, it now expects Colombo to “reciprocate” by accepting what Canada dictates.
COURTESY:THE ISLAND