Maybe you guys still don't get that the Liberals are no longer in power... and that you can't bend events to your will anymore, simply by screaming discrimination...
“We were duped,” Jasbir Sandhu, a spokesman for the Professor Mohan Singh Memorial Foundation of Canada, said in an interview.Actually, Jasbir... you knew all too well... as your emails to the PMO in the days leading up to the speech (which you apparently also leaked to the press) clearly show.
“I don't know what their agenda was.”
E-mail correspondence with the Prime Minister's Office released to The Globe and Mail show that Mr. Sandhu and foundation president Sahib Thind tried to dissuade Mr. Harper.Ooooh Jas... oh, buddy... bad, bad move.
“We do not want to cause any embarrassment to our good leader, the Right Honorable Stephen Harper. I hope you take our recommendation very seriously.”
Maybe you should have talked to some of your Liberal pals before trying to strong-arm Stephen Harper. 'Cos I'm guessin' Steffi might just have mentioned... the Prime Minister doesn't respond very well to threats.
But hey... let's check in with your buddy Jaswinder... who was originally delegated to spit on the Prime Minister's apology.
“It was unbelievable,” he said, adding that he did not understand why the Indo-Canadian community was not treated in the same fashion as Chinese and Japanese communities that have received apologies for historic wrongs.Of course you understand, Jaswinder... you just figured you could make a big politically-correct powerplay and embarrass the Conservatives.
It was up to Jason Kenney, Secretary of State for multiculturalism to put things in perspective.
Mr. Kenney dismissed the suggestion that the organizers had been misled.*
The incident was significantly different than the Chinese head tax that affected tens of thousands of Canadian residents over 80 years and the residential school policies that affected hundreds of thousands of Canadian citizens over several decades.
“This was a single incident that affected about 350 non Canadians of some 90 years ago. We're mindful that each of these are different and unique historical experiences.”
