Does Canada Give Its Seal Of Approval To Human Rights Abusers? |
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Írta: Administrator
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2012. május 16. szerda, 15:05 |
The Council of Europe has documented the growth of this terrifying anti-Roma extremism in an exhaustive report published only a few months ago. Unfortunately the Canadian House of Commons Committee that heard testimony on the Government’s proposed refugee reform package, Bill C-31, did not call a single European witness who could attest to all of this growth in hate.
The Committee could have asked the Council of Europe’s former Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg to testify; but it did not. Hammarberg, who recently retired, is the author of the report which documents Roma persecution and discrimination in great detail. Instead, the Committee heard from the European Union (EU) Ambassador to Canada, Bernhard Matthias Brinkmann. Incredibly Brinkmann said not a word about the discrimination and persecution the Roma experience in Europe.
The EU Ambassador talked about the "pull factor" of supposedly generous welfare that attracts Roma to Canada. Brinkmann somehow forgot to mention the well-known and extensively documented push factors: hatred, exclusion, violence and systematic discrimination in all areas of life. The Committee heard a similar story from Hungarian diplomat Imre Helyes, who wanted the MPs to know that his government has clamped down on extreme right street-level thugs.
Read more on http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2012/05/hill-dispatches-canada-give-its-seal-approval-human-rights-abu
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