| by A Special Correspondent
( February 28, 2013, Ontario, Sri Lanka Guardian) The firm stand by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as stated in his address to the Canadian Parliament last Tuesday, has in fact asserted his Government’s stand in regards to the war crimes and other violations continue to getting committed by the Sri Lankan regime. He held firm on his threat to boycott the Commonwealth summit in Colombo later this year, rejecting calls by some other players to make nice with Sri Lanka. The role opposition parties played in agreeing with the Government, though a rare one is in fact shows the seriousness of the nature of the foreign policy Canadians does want to patronize - if at all pursue at full throttle.
"I have indicated that unless changes occur in Sri Lanka I will not be attending the Commonwealth summit there, “Harper told parliament. “I am concerned with further developments, since I made that statement which are taking that country in a worse direction," he added.
It is interesting that persons like the Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma, who has urged Canada to drop its threat to boycott November's meeting in Sri Lanka over allegations of war crimes committed there during the civil war. Perhaps these persons, whose interest is simply the status-quo of the Commonwealth movement has no reason to comprehend the grittiness of the Canadians - who in fact carried on singlehandedly the fight against apartheid in South Africa, despite the disapproval of some of its strong allies at that time.
The Canadians’ stepped up pressure, reporting Sri Lanka to the Commonwealth for allegedly violating the
Organization’s democratic values by ignoring two court rulings and sacking Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake in January, is a weighty one. The respect and adoration Canadians carry among its allies and friends will certainly be mothballed, taking the Sri Lankan regime to task beyond international justice. The regime which intends to hide behind questionable and back-water powers to uphold power through violence and crime, with its arrogance at its peak and head buried in autocratic sand-dune, has no reason to believe that justice cannot be jailed for so long.
Prime Minister Harper’s statement and concern is a genuine reflection of what the world wants but straddled in ineffective silence - without the immediate concern for human dignity or loss of lives. Harper’s stand and Leadership is a historic one – a Canadian tradition to stand with fairness, justice, rule of law, human rights and real democracy – a time tested tradition that has brought new beginnings to many corners of the earth, strengthening the understandings and cooperation among allies and friends towards a humane world order.
The QP Clip Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair and Prime Minister Stephen Harper about Sri Lanka Commonwealth
Government of Canada reiterates its concerns about Sri Lanka's Human Rights violations
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