Tonight’s debate
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Alison Azer does.
I’m a big Stephane Dion fan, from way back, so I don’t believe for a moment that he was in any way making light of Ms. Azer’s agony. That part doesn’t trouble me.
What troubles me is this part, which has been eating at me since last night, when I first read Bob Fife’s story:
See that? A “senior government official” – usually code for a central agency – telling Bob “Ms. Azer has not been helpful in her criticism of the government,” quote unquote.
That is an extraordinary statement.
If any of our kids were stolen, we wouldn’t be nearly as composed or restrained as Ms. Azer. We would be losing our minds. We would be screaming at every government official, at every level, to do more.
To insinuate that Ms. Azer has hurt her case because she has been critical of the government isn’t just outrageous. It is something that should concern every citizen. That is, because she has been critical of the federal government, the federal government will perhaps punish her by being slightly less diligent in returning her children to her.
Two things.
One, we live in a democracy. Ms. Azer, like any citizen, is entitled to be critical of government. No exceptions.
Two, when a “senior government official” – speaking like a coward, without attribution – hints that there is a connection between the fate of her children, and her rather mild criticism of government, we have all reached a very dangerous place.
I don’t know what the Hell is going on up there in Ottawa, lately, but they need to stop it. This isn’t just offensive, it’s disgraceful.
Isn’t it?
Okay, I was in New York volunteering for that Hillary Clinton person, so I missed a lot of the controversy that has been riveting all of Toronto. You know, the one about the can of beer being thrown at an Orioles player at the Rogers Centre. It’s been big news, here in the centre of the universe.
I have no skin in this game, as it were. I’m a Red Sox fan, I didn’t know Ken Pagan when I wrote for the Sun, and I didn’t see what happened when it happened.
But the photo of Pagan, top, shows him drinking beer from a plastic cup. The photo of the incident, bottom, shows a beer can in mid-flight.
I ask you Blue Jays regulars: can you get beer in both cans and plastic cups at the Rogers Centre? Wouldn’t it be sort of weird to get both? Could someone else have, you know, thrown that beer can? Do fans come there armed with aluminum missiles to use on occasions like this?
I don’t, ahem, carry a can for this Pagan fellow. But it seems to me that he will be the beneficiary of the biggest libel action in Canadian history if the wrongdoer turns out not to be him.
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