Cynics Unlimited

Two indirect testaments to Canada’s elevated status in the political sphere since Canada came off the fence and became “relevant” on Middle East issues:

The Age
A critic proud to quote his critics
Steyn accuses many thinkers of refusing to call a spade a spade. What’s the common link with terror attacks around the world, from September 11, Bali, Madrid, the Toronto plot to kill the Canadian President and this month’s Heathrow plot? Not calling it like it is means “you corrode people’s faith in the institutions of the state,” he says. “They’ll simply say ‘these people are lying to us’.”

Jerusalem Post:
Canada’s pro-Israel premier lures Jews to Tories

Israeli and Australian journalists, listen carefully - Canada does not have a president or a premier (the latter exists for subsections of the country). Canada has a Prime Minister, and for all the kowtowing he’s been doing for the war effort (at considerable risk to both his political career and the nation’s spirited but limited armed forces), the least you all could do is remember the man’s title. Since Canada’s dogmatic conservatives are similar to America’s dogmatic leftists when it comes to fawning over the “moral superiority” of selected foreign nations, I bet virtually no one calls the JPost or The Age on their disrespectful oversights.