values not supported by canada

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Values not supported by Canada:

Democracy, human rights, free and fair elections

Off-Guardian: Hands Off Venezuela, Canada and US Go Home!

• What is happening to Venezuela is a coup d’état and it has nothing to do with democracy, human rights, free and fair elections or international law. The US and Canada represent the antithesis of those values; defying the United Nations Charter and international law by interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela. Their hands are not clean, and their motives are not pure, because their foreign policy objectives everywhere are to promote the interests of their domestic corporations, oligarchs and war profiteers.

The author of this article, David William Pear, makes a further statement in the comments section:

• Feb 14: Thanks for taking the time to read this article. It’s long, but once I started digging into the hypocrisy of Canada there was no end to uncovering their imperial crimes. Those interested in more can look to Yves Engler’s books, articles, interviews, homepage, and FB. He has been almost a one-person truth commission. He is obviously a Canadian that cares very much about his country, like most of us do, and wants it to live up to its ideals. The “Washington Consensus” is a cancer that is destroying humanity. The Guardian has been corrupted by it, as most of here know. In doing research, I am saddened when I run across excellent old articles from the Guardian, and see how far it has fallen now. Regards, David

*Yves Engler's Books*

Britannica: The Washington Consensus

• ... a set of economic policy recommendations for developing countries, and Latin America in particular, that became popular during the 1980s.

Basically, the Banksters in their august wisdom and greed got together and decided that the Latin American countries should borrow from them. Good deal for the banks; slavery for Latin America.

I can't stress this enough: It's time to re-watch The Take (2004) YouTube. (Click on "CC" for subtitles.) Buenos Aires (Argentina) workers were guilty of attempting to build an alternative economy.  It's one of the most beautiful and moving documentaries you'll ever see, except for how it ends.

You'll see the power of the corporations that had profited in Argentina and then pulled out when it became even more profitable to do so, leaving ordinary citizens unable even to draw their meagre savings out of the bank. And then you'll see how creative and resourceful and mutually cooperative some people can be when left to solve their own problems -- but also how some other people, clinging to the hope of a saviour, can once again fall prey to a smooth-talking politician claiming to seek forgiveness.

SNC-Lavalin wields a huge amount of power in Canada, to the point where the retention of Trudeau's mask of Liberalism and adherence to the so-called "rule of law" depends largely on the level of protection he can manage to provide for that one company, let alone all of the other Canadian "growth" companies now champing at the bit to fulfill their "Global Ambitions".

TorontoSun: Why does Trudeau desperately want to save SNC-Lavalin?

• Essentially he was making the case that the company is too big to fail, too big and too important to be blocked from federal contracts by a pesky conviction for bribery or corruption.

Don't imagine that Justin Trudeau is not capable of finding the words to vaguely admit to an unspecified lapse of firmness with regard to SNC-Lavalin and to offer a solemn promise of some unspecified remediation, while begging the voters' understanding and forgiveness in this election year.

He'd be very good at it, I'm sure, though it's not going to get him and his sidekick off the Venezuela hook.
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It was by similar means that the old system in Argentina has returned, with promises that things would be different, fairer, more honest -- but Argentina is now one of the members of the Lima Group, supporting the coup in Venezuela.

And by now we all should know that it was Canada's "Liberal" government that organized the whole shebang. Remember when it used to be "Yankee go home"?  Well, how does it feel now that it's "Canuck go home"?