Thursday, August 24, 2006

BORIS COMMENT TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT!!!

I personally have met with Boris and have had a good conversation with him, he is a really smart person who is wise so the comment he made was taken straight out of context as it was understood.

Please understand that he was just getting tired of not having peace and although I do not agree with his comment, I would like to say that I understand why he would make such a comment, he in no way was signifying that he would like to or the liberal party would like to have negotiations with terrorists as this is not the case, in no way does the Liberal party of Canada want to speak with Al Queda to try and work out some sort of agreement in any way, its non sense that he had to resign but it was imperative he did.

The following is the article from ctv.ca, feel free to check it out and let me know your opnion.

Embattled Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has resigned as deputy foreign affairs critic following the uproar over his comments suggesting Canada should negotiate with Hezbollah.
Wrzesnewskyj found himself distanced from his own party when he made the statement during a fact-finding mission to Lebanon last week.

"His comments, which were not representative of the Liberal party, caused a lot of concern," Liberal MP Keith Martin told CTV News.

Wrzesnewskyj tendered his resignation on Wednesday and interim Liberal Leader Bill Graham said his resignation was accepted.

After the Toronto MP suggested the Mideast peace process would benefit from Canada being more open to talking to Hezbollah, Liberal leadership hopefuls Scott Brison and Carolyn Bennett had immediately demanded Wrzesnewskyj step down from his post, saying his comments were "unacceptable."

The comments quickly became the central topic of the three-day Liberal caucus retreat in Vancouver, which was supposed to be a strategy session for the upcoming session of Parliament.
All 10 leadership candidates condemned the remarks, including Wrzesnewskyj's preferred candidate Gerard Kennedy.

At a news conference Tuesday, Tory MP Jason Kenney, parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, blasted Wrzesnewskyj, calling his comments nothing short of a sign of support for terrorist groups.

"Their idea of a balanced approach is one where Israel is always wrong," said Kenney. "This represents a totally irresponsible approach to foreign security policy."
Wrzesnewskyj, who was one of three opposition MPs on the Mideast mission, said Monday he favoured changing a Canadian law that forbids contact with known terrorist organizations.
He said the law undermines efforts to obtain lasting peace between Israel and Hezbollah fighters.

Wrzesnewskyj denied media reports that claimed he wants Hezbollah taken off Ottawa's official list of terrorist organizations.

"I've said all along that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and will continue to be," Wrzesnewskyj told reporters.

"Where I have difficulty is with the legislation that says a group on the list cannot be communicated with."

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