If It Fits...

And on the evidence of the past, it most certainly does. Which is to say, former Liberal governments did indeed demonstrate a lack of observance of values common to all democracies in their casual disregard for the upholding of specifically Canadian values. While they made it their business to ingratiate themselves for political advantage at the voting booth with what they perceived to be voting blocs comprised of ethnic-Canadians, there was one community whose needs were rather under-observed.

Canada's Jewish population, not a terribly large one by any means in contrast to those of the Chinese, Indian, Italian, Irish for example, has been disappointed time and again at the past governments' tepid response on the international scene, and specifically at the United Nations, in defending the rights and entitlements of a member-state constantly under attack through spurious declarations by another bloc; that of majority Middle-East countries.

Mind, pointing to the artless and politically-dubious statement of now-Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff during the Israel-Lebanon war - speaking of disproportionality of response, and how like that might be to a war crime, which did nothing to endear him to the Jewish voting bloc that Liberals had always associated as their own - a case in point. Canada should have, under former Liberal governments, walked out of UN sessions accusing Israel of human-rights abuses and genocidal intent.

It is, for the most part, in the venue of the United States that Canada's performance had been most disappointing, in failing to support a sister-democracy constantly under siege by an assemblage of human-rights abusers in a constant display of breathtaking hypocrisy. The fact is - although one doubts it should be used in such a crass manner as electioneering insinuations - that the Conservative-led government has gone out of its way to make administrative amends.

It has been the Conservative-led Government of Canada that has stood staunchly beside Israel as a trusted ally and friend, one which proved itself ready and willing to defy the slanderous accusations emanating from Middle-East and Muslim blocs intent on besmirching Israel's reputation on a regular-as-clockwork basis. Giving heart to Canadian Jews themselves under threat by association in the minds of anti-Semites.

And there lies the truth.