Not to be outdone in their quest to close down ambulance shipments, the CCRA also seized (October 3, 2002) and held literature supportive of Israel's right to exist.
The Canadian Customs Revenue Agency, which oversees the validity of charitable status, claims that the ambulances sent to Israel from Canada are suspect in their utilization.
A question which was asked of me many times, while I was still on-air with CIQC, and while I was still active in the Quebec Civil Rights Movement, was: If Quebec has the right to separate from Canada, vis a vis the Clarity Act, what about other provinces?
On September 1, 1939, one year to the month from the signing of the Munich Agreement, which was supposed to guarantee peace, Germany invaded Poland. Two days later, much of the world was at war.
In the September 27, 2002 issue of the National Post, the editorial headline reads: "Don't they ever get tired of being wrong"? Referring to the Canadian intellectual elitists. I guess they don't.
I used to have a lawyer friend who was at the top of his class in bashing the "privileged" class. He hated the "bourgeoisie" and claimed to be a man of the "proletariat". Unfortunately, his claim to the proletariat was a thin veneer.
As children growing up in a house where poverty reigned, but not supreme, we were raised with what seems to be considered by today's standards, an unbelievable dose of morality and ethics.