Friday 23 May 2014

letter to Justin Trudeau on MPP Moridi- CIC for Peace




May 2014
Dear Hon. Trudeau,   
1/4 Million Iranian Decent living  in Ontario And close to 400,000 all over Canada, with strong relationship with the Liberal Party, with lots of respect for your late father Mr. Pierre Elliott Trudeau for his efforts on peace, Charter of rights and Freedom and open approach for new immigrants.  
 Iranian- Community in Canada, is an influential & highly educated, we have among several hundred professional such as:  Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers and UNIVERSITY scholars. In addition we have one of the top ranking students in universities across Canada.  Also, many of Canadian Iranians are working in different fields, within the Canadian government offices, they run private enterprises and other successful businesses such as investors & builders.  Who are proudly generating hundreds of millions of dollars which is contributing to the Canadian economy and multiculturalism!    We want to bring a few viewpoints to your attention from our community........  
WE ARE sorry to report to you that, our elected member of Provincial Government, Mr. Reza Moridi is focusing mostly on foreign affairs rather than dealing with actual needs of Iranian community in Toronto & ONTARIO.........
.  In our humble opinion, Mr. Moridi is SOMEHOW confused with Liberal party guidelines.... He is emphasizing on sanction on Iran in alignment with Prime Minister Harper and Minister Baird, which is SERIOUSLY hurting only the Iranian people, not the government of Iran.
This has damaged and is continuing to negatively affect Iranian - Canadian Community FINANCES in Canada. Majority of Iranian community is not supporting these sanctions. Is it really a provincial Member of Parliament responsibility to act as slow federal Member of Parliament?????
 MMP Moridi knowingly or unknowingly, has supported an infamous ex terrorist group in Iran (Mojahedin Khalq) MEK and their lobbyist in Canada which have kept a few young Canadians in Camp Ashraf against their Will. MEK is     MEK is promoting hate and violence in Iraq and Iran which is totally against Canadian values and principles...
MPP Moridi also supported the closure of Iranian consulate in Ottawa, which has caused a tremendous amount of inconvenience for all Canadian-Iranians in our country Canada. He is simply following the Conservative Party mandates.   Supporting sanction and war, this is against the Liberal party’s policy and philosophy.  Therefore our community cannot distinguish between the Liberals and the conservatives.,,,,,,
These issues have caused hopelessness in our Community towards the Liberal Party.  
 We request that you as the leader of the Liberal party of Canada to guide some of the party members to follow the Liberal path, rather than their own personal agenda!!!  Liberal Party has always made Canada a respected and unique country globally.    Please consider our issues and concerns. 
Yours Very Truly,
Canadian Iranian Coalition for Peace

Saturday 3 May 2014

an article on how Harper is following UK interest than Canada

In Canada, war is the PM’s prerogative


This week, with little ceremony and no debate, Canada’s Prime Minister ordered the military into action on a foreign shore. We’re not at war: The six CF-18 jets now stationed in Romania are, in the words of Defence Minister Rob Nicholson, “sending out a message to Russia” about its aggressive stance toward Ukraine.

This North Atlantic Treaty Organization gesture, accompanied with escalating sanctions, is sensible and measured, and probably has the support of most Canadians. But not all – there have been well-argued cases against it from across the political spectrum.
Historian Michael Bliss argued in this newspaper that the action is a dangerous incursion into what he sees as Russia’s sphere of influence. Columnist Thomas Walkom suggested in the Toronto Star that he sees this as a regional issue and none of our business. There are probably plenty of Canadians, and MPs, who share those views, and who would raise them in a parliamentary debate.
But there wasn’t a debate, and there won’t be one. The Prime Minister has no need to ask Parliament, or anyone else, for permission to make use of the military, the intelligence services or any other federal force outside Canada’s borders. Even if he wanted to declare all-out war on Russia and all of its allies, Stephen Harper could do so on his own (after seeking the advice of his cabinet), through the Royal Prerogative, without any discussion in a democratic assembly and without any review by the Supreme Court.
This is because Canada wasn’t designed to have a role in the world. University of Toronto political scholar Irvin Studin points out in The Strategic Constitution: Understanding Canadian Power in the World, his new book examining the Constitution’s international-affairs provisions, that Canada is unique in that it doesn’t really have any.
The Constitution Act’s only substantial description of any foreign-affairs role is the line in its preamble which states that Canada’s purpose is to “promote the Interests of the British Empire.” We were created to be a colony, and we never changed that – the Charter of Rights established Canadians as individual citizens rather than royal subjects, but was mute on our country’s actions in the world.
You might think that this colonial mandate would prevent the government of Canada from doing much on the international stage. In fact, it means the opposite. We’ve ignored that provision for most of the past 150 years (you can do that with a preamble), leading to what Dr. Studin calls a “remarkable paradox”: Because international affairs is barely mentioned in the Constitution, absolutely anything done abroad, or done to Canadians because of perceived international threats, is relegated more or less to the prime minister’s personal executive discretion under the “Peace, order and good government” provision.
This has led to all sorts of consequent paradoxes. For example, Canada may go to war strictly on the whim of a sitting prime minister (since this act involves the military, which is strictly a federal prerogative), but if we ever found ourselves defeated in a war, a surrender would require the consent of all 10 provinces (because we’d be surrendering various things that are strictly under provincial jurisdiction).
This means that a prime minister can, if convinced that Canada is threatened from abroad, use the Emergencies Act to order “everything from prohibitions on travel to requisition or seizure of property, control of specified industries, and removal from Canada of non-citizens.”
Not only that, but a prime minister could, if he felt Canada faced a “real or apprehended war, invasion or insurrection” legally invoke both the Charter’s “notwithstanding” clause (which allows basic rights to be suspended) and Section 4(2) of the Constitution (which allows Canadian elections to be suspended indefinitely in wartime with a vote of only one-third of MPs). This, Mr. Studin notes, “would be tantamount to a fairly potent cocktail of executive override of most of the Charter’s key rights provisions.”
Dr. Studin is rather obsessively interested in Canada’s ability to “project strategic power in the world” – that is, he sees the lack of constitutional restrictions as a source of flexibility and strength. But this also means that our governments can put unlimited numbers of Canadian lives at risk overseas without directly asking the people.
These governments have been lucky: Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan (at first, at least) were widely supported missions, and we wisely stayed out of Iraq, so most Canadians haven’t noticed how undemocratic these missions are.
In 1939, 1994 and 2006, Parliament was given symbolic debates on military deployment, generally after the decision had been made. The next time around, a principled prime minister ought to let Parliament speak first, and decisively.
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Friday 2 May 2014

Harper pouring oil on flame in Ukraine , try for peace not war

Canada sending soldiers for military exercises in Poland, part of NATO measures


Minister Nicholson Announces Canada is 

Sending Fighter Aircraft to Romania

April 28, 2014 - Ottawa - National Defence
Today, the Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of National Defence, announced six CF-18 fighter aircraft will leave tomorrow morning for Romania as part of the Government of Canada’s contributions to NATO measures to reassure Allies in Central and Eastern Europe. The announcement was made today during Question Period.
These fighter aircraft, along with support personnel, will be based out of Romania in order to conduct training activities in support of immediate reassurance measures. They will join Romanian and United States Air Force assets which are currently operating in the region.
LONDON, Ont. - Canadian soldiers will take part in military exercises in Poland as part of NATO reassurance measures in response to the Ukraine crisis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday.
"The (Vladimir) Putin regime's persistent military aggression and its ongoing illegal occupation of Crimea and other parts of Ukraine threaten the stability and security of central and eastern Europe," he said in London, Ont.

Canada has also diverted frigate HMCS Regina, which is currently on counter-terrorism and anti-piracy patrols in the Arabian Sea, to help NATO's efforts to send a message of resolve to Russia."They will conduct training in parachuting, airborne operations and infantry skills alongside Polish and American counterparts in this United States-led exercise with a view to enhancing Alliance interoperability and readiness," the prime minister's office said in the statement.
Harper did not say where the ship is headed, but NATO announced earlier this month it was beefing up maritime patrols in both the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean.
Six Canadian CF-18 fighter jets left their base in Bagotville, Que., this week, headed for an air base in Romania, and eventual patrols along that country's border with Ukraine — and possibly over the Black Sea.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada's actions are meant to send a "very loud, clear and tangible message" to Russia.
"Until Russia clearly demonstrates its respect for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity we will continue to work with our allies and our partners to further isolate Russia economically and politically," Baird said at a news conference in Ottawa.