Says PMSH: (emphasis mine)
"There are those in the opposition who will say, 'You know, China is an important country, so we shouldn't really protest these things … so maybe someday we'll be able to sell more goods there,'" said Harper, who was in Halifax to speak the annual general meeting of Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative party.
"I think that's irresponsible. I think the government of Canada, when a Canadian citizen is ill-treated and when the rights of a Canadian citizen need to be defended, I think it's always the obligation of the government of Canada to vocally and publicly stand up for that Canadian citizen.
Now, let's not forget that Mr. Celil is the man whom the Conservatives dropped the ball on last spring, and it wasn't until August that anything so much as moved. They chose to ignore Mr. Celil's case until the heat got high enough that people started to know about it - like the environment portfolio, they wanted to ignore it until the heat got too high for them.
Harper accuses other parties of playing politics, and yet he plays politics with policy and people's lives. Worse, he takes his marching orders from the lip flapping style of George W. Bush. The only good news is that unlike Bush, Harper hasn't exactly got a large army to throw his weight around with.
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