UN Human Rights unit roasts Canada over mining, aboriginal treatment

I want to live in a country where who my daddy is doesn’t matter. The world of time immemorial doesn’t exist any more and it’s about time all of us accept that and work to move forward together.

I grew up among people who fled the Soviet advance of WW2 so that their children could have a better life. Anyone stuck in a remote prison of despair, alcohol and drugs should do the same.

WELL, if we are all tired of paying the bill(no bills ever gets paid by the way). We can just give back, that which was stolen in the first place. We turned HUMAN BEINGS, into savages and with a quick name change and a new LABEL; we get to kill 165 million of our brothers. We are all one blood and we are called the PEOPLE.

So now we have 2 dozen activist groups speaking to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on behalf of all Canadians? Laughably some of these groups were
upset because the government dared to subject their group to audits and pulled charitable status from groups that were violating the rule that they can’t spend more than 10% of their resources on political activities. Charities in Canada are
prevented from engaging in any partisan activity.

Last time I checked, the U.N. didn’t rule in Canada and from its inability to resolve any of the serious human rights issues running rampant elsewhere in the world; militant Islamic extremism waging war and terrorism in some 40 countries killing over 1,000,000 people and by the UNHR’s own figures displacing some 60,000,000, genocide against religious minorities, not to mention apostates and infidels, mass execution of prisoners, kidnapping women and girls to be sold as slaves, the beheadings of news reporters and NGO aid workers, and the suppression of women and GLBT individuals. Sure the UNHR commission sticking their nose into Canada’s affairs is really tackling the big stuff.

But this was the same organization that elected Gadhafi’s Libya as chair of the Geneva based Commission on Human Rights by secret ballot in 2003.

Hopefully most Canadians will learn who these Canadian activists groups are and avoid supporting them in any way, shape or form.

I am saddened by many of the comments people have listed here. Do you all lack any common sense? Canada helped found the UN, and Lester B Person won the noble peace prize for his work, not to mention is considered the godfather of peacekeeping. North Korea is worse, so your justification is that Canada should become more like them? Or that engaging with nations that have human rights abuses makes the whole organization useless? How can young struggling nations learn about human rights if not by participating, and being given a voice? To watch and see how nations like Canada treat human rights issues? I am not some lefty or socialist. I just have common sense and care not to pay more taxes or see jobs lost. If you go off to other parts of the world and treat people like they don’t matter, or do it to a group of people in your own backyard, what happens? WHAT HAPPENS EVERY TIME IN HISTORY? You make enemies, who you have to fight. Fighting costs money. (remember how the US is still almost bankrupt from fighting a war in a country they trampled all over and now they are sending troops back) Instead of spending money on things that benefit Canadians, we will pour endless amounts of money (WAAAAY more than we are currently giving the UN) on fighting people who hate us. How about instead of pretending we are above it all, we just listened to what the UN said. Told our mining companies they must respect the nations they are mining in outside of Canada? Then we avoid making enemies, we avoid bankrupting our nation in a terrible economic climate, we teach nations like North Korea how its done like a boss and we make very little concessions. Do you really care how a mining company in South America has to treat people there? How about instead of ignoring native people, we just gave them that committee they wanted? If your daughter went missing, and she was among hundreds that had over a short period of time, wouldn’t you want the government to do something if the RCMP weren’t? People who are fools and think they are untouchable are the downfall of our country. Just look at our neighbours to our south….riots cost businesses money, wars bankrupted the nation, election spending is so much you could literally cut taxes by 10% if that money was going towards government costs….such non-sense….pull your heads out of your bums and stop spending all my tax dollars on stupidity.

The UN human rights bodies only selectively hear human rights
complainants’ voice on political considerations. An example: while
vigorously hearing the human rights complaints from the Chinese against
China, these UN bodies turn away human rights complaints from the same
Chinese against the Western countries like USA, Canada, etc. to cover up
for these countries. I know at least 3 Chinese in US and Canada who
brought human rights complaints to UN against the US and Canadian
governments, but all of their complaints were turned a blank eye on by
the UN.

My experience with UN probably is the most dramatic. In 2004, The Office
of “High Commissioner for Human Rights” (HCHR) of UN, then headed by
Louise Arbour, a former judge of Supreme Court of Canada, seized all the
complaints I sent to UN’s various human rights bodies, and returned
them to me, in violation of the UN’s human rights complaint procedures. I
then brought a Complaint against this HCHR and the Secretary of the
Human Rights Committee, Mr. Markus Schmidt to the President of UN
General Assembly. But my Complaint was transferred back to the HCHR by
Secretary of the President’s Office, Tony Gallagher of the USA, without
consulting with any officials of the President’s Cabinet.

When I protested to the HCHR on grounds of conflict of interests,
“Secretary” of the Human Rights Committee, Mr. Markus Schmidt called me
and told me that he was “assigned” to my case by the HCHR, and “you
don’t expect this Office will assist you”. Please see the letters that I
wrote to the HCHR for details.

The UN. is asking for some details of how retain items are managed. No big deal here . Canadian companies operate in some pretty awful places. The miners are bound firstly by local law,then by laws applied to Canadian corporations working abroad.

This is like an audit rather than a condemnation. Canadians and Canada are not perfect and do have a good (not perfect) record.