Jonathan Kay of the NP wrote a response to an article by that beacon of enlightenment Heather Mallick which I thought to share with you all.
You can read Mallick's article here:
Mallick: Rebel page is the real thing - thestar.com
"I have never heard the Harper-managed Canadian slide into backwater status put more eloquently. Well played, Brigette. She’s bright, she’s brave, she made her stand. If that makes her elitist — Harper’s favourite pejorative — so be it."
Unusually for me, I have been reading online commentary nationwide, written by people who lack the courage to use their own names. I was shocked. DePape is being given her due. “A courageous and peaceful example of protest,” one emailer wrote. “I’m surprised she wasn’t Tasered.”
Jonathan's rebuttal can be read here and is excerpted below:
The rogue Senate page and the absurdity of Canada’s ‘Arab Spring’ - The Globe and Mail
"But back to Mallick and her ode to he need for a Canadian Arab Spring. Imagine a radio host from the Arab world interviewing Mallick about this column:
Radio host: “We have on the line from Toronto, Canada journalist Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star who wrote this weekend that Canada needs it's own Arab spring. Heather, thanks for joining us”
Heather Mallick: “Great to be here”
Host: “Canada just had free and fair elections of the kind no Arab country has ever held. You have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of mobility – I could go on. Why do you think Canada needs it's own 'Arab spring'?”
Mallick: “Well, that's all true but our Prime Minister, he's a real piece of work”
Host: “Oh, my researcher must have missed that. I'm sorry, I don't know much about your tyrannical Prime Minister that you seek to liberate your people from. So he's killed thousands of innocent citizens, arrested his political opponents?”
Mallick: “Well no, but he ran really nasty TV ads about his opponents. More importantly, he's turned Canada into a backwater, and that's why we need our own Arab Spring”
Host: [30 seconds of awkward silence followed by what sounds like cursing in Arabic by the radio host to his producer for booking this guest.] “Thanks for joining us Heather Mallick, from the Toronto Star who thinks Canada needs its own revolution to overthrow the government they just elected. Over to you, Abdul, for traffic.”
