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Queen Elizabeth II and Stephen Harper Will Not Be Attending the Next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka
8 mai 2013
(CRC)—Yesterday Buckingham Palace announced that H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II would be absent from the bi-annual Commonwealth meeting scheduled for November 2013 in Sri Lanka, saying that “the reason is that we are reviewing the amount of long-haul travel that is taken by the Queen”. Yesterday’s The Guardian reports a palace spokesman also saying that “it has nothing to do with the political situation in Sri Lanka…the key point here is that the Queen will be represented, although she is not there in person, by the Prince of Wales.” The ‘situation in Sri Lanka’ refers to the international boycott of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 organized by Amnesty International and other groups such as George Soros’ International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch, and Sri Lankan NGOs who have expressed publicly their opposition to that country’s government. The Queen has previously gotten herself in trouble by ‘speaking out of turn’ and advocating a population reduction program which amounted to a genocide policy at the Trinidad-and –Tobago CHOGM 2009. While there has been no public talk of Elisabeth II abdicating, Prince Charles does follow in the footsteps of the Duke of Edinburgh when it comes to the green agenda of human depopulation. Stephen Harper flirting again with terrorists As for Prime Minister Harper, his recent announcementthat he will not be attending the CHOGM 2013 in Sri Lanka his not news, witness an October 30, 2011 article by Canadian Press, were journalist Bruce Cheadle wrote : “Canadian officials said Harper walked out of the summit when Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the host of the next biennial Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Colombo in 2013, was invited to speak to the assembled leaders Sunday. “Harper had said coming into the 2011 meeting that he would boycott Sri Lanka’s meeting if human rights abuses linked to the bloody end of the Tamil insurgency there were not investigated. “Harper spoke directly to Mr. Rajapaksa about the issues this weekend and said the president’s tone was ‘reassuring.’ “‘However I remain skeptical of some of the reassurances and we’ll be working, obviously, between now and the next Commonwealth to ensure that our concerns are genuinely addressed.’” “Harper added that if they are not, he’ll boycott the next summit.” Critics have accused the Prime Minister of trying to sway the large community of Sri Lankans in mainly Toronto East and GTA (probably the largest outside Tamil Nadu) away from their traditional Liberal Party vote by what many have called an opportunistic, unprincipled human rights stance, regardless of his Foreign Affairs Minister recent assurances to the opposition parties in the House of Commons that “no one is standing up stronger against the regime in Colombo, Sri Lanka, than this prime minister and this government”. The Canadian Tamil Congress spokesman David Poopalapillai has said that Baird has become the “darling” of the Tamil community, reports Huffington Post Canada. So as of today, the only two absentees at the upcoming Colombo CHOGM 2013 will be the Queen and her most ardent supporter PM Harper ! |