2006
Parkdale-High Park By-election (Ontario)
NDP CANDIDATE ENDORSED
BY MP WHO WANTS HEZBOLLAH REMOVED FROM CANADA'S LIST OF TERRORIST
ORGANIZATIONS
Ursomarzo Demands Answer from
DiNovo: Hezbollah Should Remain Listed as Terrorists? Yes
or No?
August 21,
2006, Parkdale-High Park - On
her campaign web site, the NDP's Cheri DiNovo prominently displays
an endorsement by the riding's MP, Peggy Nash, who was today reported
to be demanding that the Hezbollah be removed from Canada's
list of banned terrorist organizations. Freedom
Party's candidate, Silvio Ursomarzo, today wrote to DiNovo demanding
to know whether she shares Ms. Nash's position on Hezbollah. The
letter follows:
"Dear Reverend
DiNovo:
On your campaign website (www.cheridinovo.ca), under the heading
"Endorsements", you prominently feature the fact that your campaign is
endorsed by Parkdale-High Park's MP, Peggy Nash. You are
shown standing with her shoulder to shoulder. She is, at this
point, the only person whose endorsement you list.
Ms. Nash is in Lebanon on a tour
arranged by the National Council of Canadian-Arab Relations, which has
been critical of the Canadian government for not demanding an immediate
ceasefire to the conflict in Israel and Lebanon. According to
a report
by the CBC today, Ms. Nash yesterday said that Hezbollah
should be removed from Canada's list of banned terrorist
organizations. Ms. Nash opined that "It's just not helpful to
label them a terrorist organization...If the political parties can
figure out a way to work with Hezbollah to try to get along internally,
then we should perhaps take a cue from that."
Ms. DiNovo, Ms. Nash apparently
regards Hezbollah's offensive shellings of Israel as somehow being
morally equivalent to Israel's defensive measures in Lebanon; she
appears to view Hezbollah has somehow having a righteous cause and
reason for existence. In my view, that position is both
false and a threat to humanity around the globe. Morality demands
that we not allow Canada to be a place to raise funds for military
offensives against rationality, democracy or freedom in Israel or
elsewhere.
Given that you so prominently
display Ms. Nash's endorsement on your campaign website, the voters of
Parkdale-High Park have a right to know if you agree with her outrageous
views on Hezbollah. I want to give you the opportunity to
answer three questions:
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Being a minister who
regularly opines on the nature of good and evil, do you agree
with Ms. Nash's view, which effectively regards Israel's
military responses in Lebanon as being morally equivalent
to Hezbollah's offensives on Israel?
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In your view, is Hezbollah a
terrorist organization?
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In your view, should
Hezbollah be removed from Canada's list of banned terrorist
organizations?
Please note that I am sharing this
letter, and will share your response to it, with the media, and will
post it to my campaign website, so that the voters of this riding can
know whether or not your views on Hezbollah differ from those of the
rather outspoken person who has endorsed you, Ms. Peggy
Nash."
For further
details, contact:
Silvio Ursomarzo Campaign
Cell:
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website: https://freedomparty.on.ca/ursomarzo
e-mail:
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