POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Paul Cellucci likely qualifies as the most ignorant and rude
American ambassador ever appointed to Canada.
He criss-crossed the country saying things ambassadors are
never supposed to say, negative things about our national policies, as for
instance berating us about our military expenditures and internal affairs.
And he had no grace in the way he barked out his
inappropriate comments.
He should have been declared persona non grata as an
ambassador - and he would have been thus treated by many countries.
But our governments were timorous and afraid of the
dangerously vindictive police state emerging south of the border in the wake of
9/11., and they just let this unpleasant man spread his diplomatic poison.
You are not supposed to say unpleasant things about a person
who has died, but this man never did much in Canada that was not unpleasant.
His loss will go un-mourned in this country, except by the
likes of John Baird and the other uninformed loudmouths of Harper's
American-wannabe government.
