Canada's wake-up call...

Canada's tolerance of the intolerant by Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal

"Everyone is entitled to their opinions. No one is entitled to their facts."
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The insult to this country’s collective consciousness came from too many "talking heads", including Toronto mayor David Miller, who whined all weekend long about the need to get at the "root causes" that drove these home-bred fanatics to plan mayhem and murder. In the long run this mindset of politically correct moral relativism may do more harm to this nation as we continue to seep into the quagmire of tolerating the intolerable.

Also, Rachel Marsden: How could anyone hate Canada?

Folks here think that targeting Canadians is like gunning for the Care Bears. A mere flash of a Canadian flag on our backpacks is supposed to make people from all over the world want to hug us.

The reaction to what might have been the biggest terrorist attack in North America was the same when Osama bin Laden, and more recently, the Taliban's Mullah Dadullah threatened Canada: Surely they didn't mean it. After all, no country is more diverse and tolerant than Canada.

And no city within Canada is more so than Toronto. Our provincial government even considered sanctioning oppressive Muslim sharia law.

So why, people here ask, would anyone want to do damage to Toronto? Maybe they don't. No one has been convicted of anything yet. Maybe the three tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer that the suspects allegedly ordered were going to be used to grow a massive garden that would spell out "I Love Canada!" in tulips.

Finally, MM hits it again with her latest column "It's the jihad, stupid" and her Vent called "The Jihadis among us"

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police official coined the baneful phrase "broad strata" to describe the segment of Canadian society from whence Jamal and his fellow adult suspects Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara, Asad Ansari, Shareef Abdelhaleen, Mohammed Dirie, Yasim Abdi Mohamed, Jahmaal James, Amin Mohamed Durrani, Abdul Shakur, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, and Saad Khalid came.

"Broad?" I suppose it is so if one defines "broad" to mean more than one spelling variation of Mohammed or Jamal. Or perhaps, as Internet humorist Jim Treacher (jimtreacher.com) suggests, "broad" refers to the "strata" of the suspects' beard lengths.

How about that Canadian border?

**Update**

Jonah Goldberg: The price of 'nice' for Canada

Canada is arguably the most deluded industrialized nation in the world. Because elite Canadians think the U.S. is the font of the world's problems, they think being different than the U.S. and sucking up to the United Nations will buy them grace on the cheap. They claim to be "a nation of peacekeepers," but they rank 50th among U.N. peacekeeper nations in the number of troops sent. They've bravely contributed to the war in Afghanistan, where 2,300 troops still serve, but refused to join the effort in Iraq, believing that jihadists would honor such fine distinctions. That was awfully nice of them. Too bad nice has nothing to do with it.

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