To the Editor:
As a possible explanation for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s pretensions of some kind of new Napoleon march on Moscow, it has been pointed out that there are over a million Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, primarily of the western Ukraine anti-Russian persuasion. Politicians are wont to put power over principle and as 2015 draws near, efforts at election fraud impunity may not be adequate. Fortunately, with recountable paper ballots and, as yet, a lack of vote rigging machines, stacking the deck is still a challenge for the political power hungry.
So far, the “opposition” parties have not shown much nasal sensitivity to the necrotic war odour and oligarchic powers that dominate the mean and sleazy media, but if Canadians were actually to vote in numbers like the people in Crimea or eastern Ukraine, even if resorting to spoiled ballots for lack of independent candidates, it would send a message to the privation-wealth-concentration regressive political forces.
Those citizens actually concerned about Canada’s future might find some illumination in Pepe Escobar’s May 19 Asia Times article, “China Pivot Fuels Eurasian Century”.
West Creston