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  • Prime Minister Paul Martin afraid of american bashing Parrish

    by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com

    November 4, 2004

    Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin is afraid of anti-american, backbencher, Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish.

    Martin’s fraidy cat mode is propelled by the minority position his scandal-plagued government was left in by last June’s federal election.

    Prime Minister Martin cannot, as requested in emails of protest, fire the Mississauga-Erindale four-time re-elected MP, no matter how vociferous her continuing anti-american outbursts. That’s because the ouster of even one Liberal from his caucus would mean the literal downfall fall of the Liberal government, which would be forced to return to the voting booth just months after re-election.

    Martin cannot afford to make Parish an achilles’ heel.

    The backbencher MP, whose latest american bashing included her remarks that american voters were out of synch with most of the free world by re-electing President George W. Bush, is already on the public record for threatening resignation as a means to get her way.

    Parrish threatened to resign when she perceived Martin predecessor Prime Minister Jean Chretien to be waffling on his refusal to join any U.S.-led strike against Iraq that did not have United Nations approval.

    “This is crazy,” Parrish raged. “I don’t think we should be helping americans get away with this. This is just the boys playing with their big toys and, although we can’t stop the americans, we don’t have to legitimize this.”

    Ready to exploit her perception of her party’s vulnerability she said: “This party is in a pretty shaky state right now, so I’m not looking to lead a parade of 50 of us across the aisle and force an election.

    “But I’m prepared to sit as an independent.”

    at the time Parrish issued her threats, Martin was Finance Minister.

    Parrish’s threats to force an election and sit as an independent came in the aftermath of the return to Canada of a delegation of nine MPs she headed on a Palestinian paid fact finding mission. The delegation, which visited the West Bank, Gaza strip and Israel in May of 2002, was funded by Palestinian House, a Palestinian cultural centre based in Parrish’s home riding of Mississsauga.

    The Canadian MPs—three Liberal backbenchers, one New Democrat, four members of the Bloc Quebecois and one independent—produced a report accusing Israel of resorting to increasingly harsh tactics that had left Palestinians living in sub-human conditions.

    admittedly a pro-Palestinian human rights activist “long before I became a member of parliament,” Parrish sent a press release on government letterhead last March, condemning the assassination Sheikh ahmad Yassin, the leader of the Hamas militant group that targeted Israelis in suicide bombings.

    “This brutal, violent and provocative murder, perpetrated by the government of Israel, flies in the face of international law and human decency,” Parrish said in the press release.

    Meanwhile, don’t expect Prime Minister Paul Martin to boot the american bashing Parrish out of his caucus anytime soon.

    Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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