{"id":5078,"date":"2010-08-25T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T17:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2010-08-25T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T17:34:28","slug":"qotd-amnesty-international-decries-human-rights-situation-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/qotd-amnesty-international-decries-human-rights-situation-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Amnesty International decries human rights situation in . . . Canada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>According to some media reports, Amnesty International\u2019s new secretary general, Salil Shetty, has accused the Canadian government of a \u201cserious worsening\u201d of human rights in Canada. He cited a \u201cshrinking of democratic spaces\u201d in Canada, and organizations that have lost their funding for asking \u201cinconvenient questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou expect more from Canadians . . . I think there is a growing gap between the values and the track record of Canada historically and the actions of the current government, which is deeply concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It reads like a Liberal Party press release, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>So what, exactly, has Mr. Shetty so upset about that he\u2019s decided to slam Canada rather than, for instance, Iran?<\/p>\n<p>Why, it\u2019s the fact that Ottawa hasn\u2019t sought the repatriation of young Omar Khadr from his detention in Guantanamo Bay. Which is a rather curious thing to criticize, since \u201cthe values and the track record\u201d of the previous Liberal government is entirely consistent with what the Conservatives are currently doing.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian MacNair, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/08\/25\/adrian-macnair-canada-noted-human-rights-pariah-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Canada, noted human rights pariah state&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2010-08-25<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to some media reports, Amnesty International\u2019s new secretary general, Salil Shetty, has accused the Canadian government of a \u201cserious worsening\u201d of human rights in Canada. He cited a \u201cshrinking of democratic spaces\u201d in Canada, and organizations that have lost their funding for asking \u201cinconvenient questions.\u201d \u201cYou expect more from Canadians . . . I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,10,53,41],"tags":[52,86,217],"class_list":["post-5078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-absurd","tag-criticism","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1jU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}