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Explaining John Baird's stunning hypocrisy on gay rights

Friday, July 11, 2014 17:12

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Last year Canada’s newspaper of record noted Foreign Minister Baird’s “passion and unequivocal pride as a gay-rights activist”.

The occasion was his outspoken denunciation of the recently passed law in Russia against “gay propaganda”. Indeed, Baird has lambasted a number of countries for their regressive attitude on LBGT rights, including Nigeria, Uganda, and Iran.

This week Mr. Baird spent four days touring Canada with the FM of the UAE, Sheikh Abdullah. The dropped in on a Mid-East security confab at the Munk Centre, hit the Calgary Stampede, and sat down with business bigs in BC, before releasing a joint statement on the Canada-UAE strategic agenda.

Here’s the summary of gay rights in the UAE, per the Wikipedia entry for “gay rights in UAE”;

Summary table[edit]

Same-sex sexual activity legal	(Penalty: Deportation, chemical castrations, fines or prison time)
Equal age of consent
Anti-discrimination laws in employment only
Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services
Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (incl. indirect discrimination, hate speech)
Same-sex marriages
Recognition of same-sex couples
Step-child adoption by same-sex couples
Joint adoption by same-sex couples
Gays and lesbians allowed to serve openly in the military
Right to change legal gender
Access to IVF for lesbians
Commercial surrogacy for gay male couples

Looks like gays in the UAE have the right to deportation and prison time!

So why no public denunciation of the UAE, when their record on gay rights is as bad or worse than Russia’s or Iran’s?

Because the UAE is a million Arabs sitting on top of the 7th largest oil reserves in the world. In other words, they’ve got hundreds of billions of dollars to spend!

Sucking up to people with money is becoming a Canadian specialty.

Principles are great, but as Baird obviously knows, one thing is more important.

Money.

Source: http://theviewfromfallingdowns.blogspot.com/2014/07/explaining-john-bairds-stunning.html

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