PhilPaine.com

I have lost all respect for Gen­er­al Rick Hilli­er, Canada’s Chief of Defense Staff (the high­est rank­ing mil­i­tary offi­cer in the coun­try). He may be very com­pe­tent in run­ning mil­i­tary oper­a­tions, but he can­not be trust­ed in the fun­da­men­tal area of prop­er pub­lic behav­iour for some­one in his post. He has done some­thing which is extreme­ly offen­sive to a free peo­ple in a demo­c­ra­t­ic nation. He has used his office to try to muz­zle demo­c­ra­t­ic debate in Cana­da about our role in Afghanistan. By claim­ing that our free demo­c­ra­t­ic debate “helps” the Tal­iban, he is demon­strat­ing that he, him­self, is infect­ed with the vilest ide­ol­o­gy of the Tal­iban. His “shut up, don’t think, and do what you’re told” atti­tude to the Cana­di­an peo­ple is pro­found­ly offen­sive. He should be removed from his post at once.

The rul­ing Con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty is rife with kind of Tal­iban-like men­tal­i­ty. We should be work­ing to get rid of them, too.