Canada Postures to Cover Up Negative International Role
According to information posted on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's website summing up his participation at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), in session September 13- 26, he is a man of action. "Prime Minister delivers action at the United Nations General Assembly" is the title of the press release issued by the Prime Minister's Office.
"[H]e worked closely with our global partners to address the world's biggest challenges and make life better for people. He advanced action in key areas including health, food security, and climate action and worked with partners to continue standing up for Ukraine in the face of Putin's illegal and unjustifiable invasion and countering Russian false narratives and disinformation," the press release says.
What follows is a list of how much money he threw at what, all of it indicative of what the Trudeau government is pushing in the current parliamentary session which got underway September 15. None of it bodes well for the people of Canada in whose name the government is concentrating more and more powers in its own hands to decide everything on behalf of narrow private interests and the U.S. war machine. The press release states:
"On the margins of UNGA, Prime Minister Trudeau announced $1.21 billion in new funding at the pledging conference for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria's Seventh Replenishment, hosted by the President of the United States, Joe Biden. This funding, a 30 per cent increase from the last pledge, will fight these diseases and help meet the Global Fund's goal of saving 20 million lives over the next three years.
"The Prime Minister also allocated $100 million from previously announced funding to the Global Fund's COVID-19 Response Mechanism, to support countries in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria programs and initiate urgent improvements in health and community systems. He also announced $55 million has been allocated for partners to help mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and advance action on global health and sexual and reproductive health.
"Prime Minister Trudeau also participated in the Global Food Security Summit where he highlighted Canada's ongoing efforts to tackle the global food security crisis and announced the allocation of $245 million in humanitarian funding to UN, Canadian, and international organizations working to ensure no one goes hungry. ...
"[He] hosted a meeting with Caribbean and regional partners to continue to advance ways the international community can help support Haiti's stability and sustainable development. At the meeting, he announced $20 million to the UN Development Programme's Multi-Donor Trust Fund Contribution for Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Efforts in Haiti."
He is also said to have confronted "the rise of hate and violent extremism" and "highlighted Canada's strong leadership on climate action and the global biodiversity crisis."
It turns out the Prime Minister is also co-chair of the "UN Sustainable Development Goals Advocates group." At that meeting, he "underlined Canada's commitment to making life better for people, including by advancing gender equality. He announced a $10 million contribution over three years to Invest in Childcare to ensure access to quality and affordable childcare in low- and middle-income countries worldwide, which addresses a main barrier to women's participation in the economy."
All of this posturing as a responsible member of the international community seems to have garnered him a one-on-one meeting with the Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres. "Canada's pledge of $1.21 billion in new funding to the Global Fund is a 30 per cent increase over our last pledge,'" the PMO press release writes. Canada's support for the U.S. war machine gave Trudeau pride of place at "a welcoming reception for heads of delegation hosted by the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden and an event with the Clinton Global Initiative -- Executive Roundtable on Unlocking and Realizing the Benefits of Inclusive Job Growth hosted by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton."
Trudeau also met with the President of Moldova, the President of the Republic of Suriname and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Given the very serious problems facing humankind, Trudeau's posturing to look important and of consequence merely serves to expose how trite a character he is. Canada is not playing a positive role at the UN or in the international arena. So long as the U.S. is calling the shots and Canada is on its destructive bandwagon, this will be the case. Like the U.S. administration, no matter who is in power, Canada is concentrating police powers in very narrow private hands. It is desperate to serve the U.S. war machine with resources, weapons, air space, territory, money, armed forces -- whatever it says it needs.
The government lives on the edge, hoping nobody will notice or that those who do can do nothing about it. Nobody is supposed to discuss the problem that the constitutional order inherited from the past no longer serves the powers that be which have no intention of bringing in a new one. It is clear that those in positions of power and privilege are desperate to make hay while the sun shines, and the world can go to hell for all they care.
Humankind, however, has another plan and it is fighting on all fronts for its right to be. It is One Humanity, One Struggle with a single consciousness of its right to be and to prevail!
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 8 - November 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2022/Articles/MS520810.HTM
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