Gwyn Morgan, former President and CEO of Encana, is a decent man and a great Canadian. He offered to serve his country for one dollar -- less than the price of a cup of coffee. He assembled a team of volunteers, and was ready to go.
For this, he was grilled and vilified by a parliamentary committee stacked with Liberals and NDP partisans, who ruled that he was unfit to serve his country.
His crime: he is not one of "them"; he does not share their inclusive, ultra-tolerant left-wing head-in-the-sand social idealism. Anyone who does not fit their tolerant, inclusive view cannot be tolerated and must be excluded. He simply stated the obvious fact that certain classes of immigrants contribute disproportionately to crime. And for this, he was rejected.
When I heard of his rejection, I dashed off a short letter to the National Post. It was published, along with another one, as the featured Letters of the Day. It simply said:
"The rejection of Gwynn Morgan, Encana CEO, by the Champions of Inclusion and Tolerance™ who grilled him says more about the committee's narrow-minded intolerance than it does about any supposed shortcomings on the part of Mr Morgan."
Mr Morgan offered to serve his country for a dollar -- less than the price of a coffee. This fact escaped at least one contributor to a Globe and Mail list who complained that he was just another Conservative "at the trough". I think she was right. Serving for a dollar is, unlike a Liberal, a Conservative at the trough -- serving. Another, in a fit of delusionary excess than surely only those on the left are capable of, stated that by the Liberal and NDP committee members' vote against Mr Morgan, "Canada has spoken".
Can you believe such delusionary arrogance?
Another poster suggested that PM Harper and the Conservatives remind him of Hitler. And he actually meant it. Left-wingers have really worked themselves into a frothy mental state. If being disconnected from reality constitutes a form of mental illness then being an extreme-leftist thinker surely qualifies.
The letter was published this morning. This evening I received an unexpected phone call from Bill Phillips in Halifax, who asked me if I was the Richard Ball who wrote letters published in the National Post. I said I was. He thanked me for writing them. I appreciated his call.
I've also received calls from Wayne Eyre, an excellent letter-writer from Saskatoon, and another local fellow, who was moving away, who wanted to let me know he appreciated my letters to both the National Post and the local Guardian paper. All appreciated.
Still, it's a sad, shameful day for Canada.
But I admire PM Harper for sticking to his guns and refusing to send another candidate for the committee to consider.
2 comments:
If PM Harper closes down the committee will all those members lose the extra pay and perks?
It would be nice to see those twits face a pay cut. It's a bonus if it saves the taxpayers some expense.
Just wondering.
expatgreg:
You have spoken openly about the alleged racism in Canadian society; yet you would disallow others from making any comments whatsoever about perceived cultural -- not racial -- problems. You have smeared an entire segment of Canadian society, yet would deny others their right to make constructive comments based on observable facts.
You confuse Mr. Morgan's comments, about a substrata of immigrants, as a broad slur against all Jamaican immigrants, which it most assuredly was not.
Then you go on to make the unsubstantiated comment that if it weren't the Jamaicans it would be someone else that Canadians would despise.
Such accusations are hateful and unfounded. Canadians are a generous, tolerant people.
Are you saying that there is no Jamaican crime problem in Jamaica, that there is no culture of crime, and that otherwise law-abiding, law-respecting Jamaicans suddenly become criminals upon arrival to Canada?
If so, perhaps we should encourage them to settle in the USA where they are, according to you, over-achievers. (Which makes other ethnic groups under-achievers, thus amounting to an implicitly racist comment on your part.)
Perhaps they respond better to the capitalist ethos of America than they do to the socialist-sodden state of Canada.
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