Harper honours Holocaust victims at Auschwitz

Another proud moment for Canada on the world stage.

Oh please. How can you be a foreign dignitary and not go? Don't act like this was anything special or out of the ordinary on Harper's part.

photo op and all that... he hasnt made a comment to the Canadian people about it... but then he never says much anyway... maybe this will get him a few Jewish votes...but I suppose they can see through it... looked about as sincere as Lukiwski

It was a class act and a proper venue for a statesman.

true... but still a photo op for stevie

And if he allowed no photo's he would be a media-bully right ?

If Harper wants to really honour Holocaust victims, he should try to convince Europe to bring back some Jews from Israel.

I believe it would be theraputic for some of the shallow partisan types to visit that place........
I have the sad distinction of having seen the killing fields and having visited that terrible place---and dispite having seen too many really sad things...that place did give me the creeps.....

Good old Kenmore. You never fail to disapoint with you’re predictability.
It was a photo-op and yes, every world leader and prominent figure should be seen to make the trip but I believe the timing and intent is no small miscalculation.





Too little, too late I'd say:

Canadian General Maurice Baril.

He was appointed head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) at the UN in June 1992, where he was military advisor to then under-secretary for peacekeeping operations Kofi Annan. Baril was in charge of the Military Division at DPKO during the Rwandan Genocide where his countryman General Roméo Dallaire was force commander of the UNAMIR.
He was the man back at the UN in New York to whom General Roméo Dallaire reported. Dallaire asked for permission to "seize the arms caches" of the Interahamwe militia. Permission was refused. The death toll: 800,000. This is a crime for which no one has been found responsible and yet only Canadians were involved in the UN decision.

For all the lofty talk, Canadian General Maurice Baril was the one man who could have made the biggest difference. It might have stopped that genocide or it might have resulted in all our troops being killed but something should have been done to take active steps to ensure it "never happened again".

Paying respect is just lip service if the actions never match the talk.

Isn’t the whole point of Auschwitz about learning from the past?

I bet if that was Dion people would be saying that he is a true statesman and that he was leading the way on the world stage or something like that. There are just some people that will jump on Harper simply because he is Harper.

.. until Kenmore?

I think it's still a good and just topic. The whole purpose of Auschwitz is to cronical and record mans inhumanity, and to remind us to always be wary of it happening again. My comments on our Canadian general at the UN simply shows how we have failed before and how large and complex this task is.

No. The same people who are calling Harper a statesman would be calling Dion a political opportunist and was visiting simply to garner votes.