A Rightwing Canadian Museum For Human Rights
I mean, c'mon. This is CanWest's baby and Stephen Harper has pledged $100 million now and $22 million annually to it and now submissions are being solicited as to what goes in it and REAL women is ready aye ready to offer up suggestions.
HowAbout"CanadianMuseumOfIrony"?
I dunno 'bout you, Dear Reader - but CanWest offends me. Its newspapers offend me such that I go without. Its television network, Global, offends me to the point where I want to leave the country. Personally, I find CanWest/Global overwhelmingly and astoundingly "white male" - if you know what I mean. And, as a Feminist, I'm pretty sure that's a backlash I'm getting every time I come across a CanWest editorial or a Global newscast.
REAL Women, on the other hand, is what I think of as CanWest/Global's natural constituency:
"The Advisory Committee for the Museum, selected by the former Liberal government, consisted mainly of feminist, homosexual and regular Liberal stand-bys, such as a former Liberal Prime Minister John Turner, former Liberal MPs, Cabinet Ministers and some Senators. The museum was intended to be a monument to former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Charter of Rights."This has raised concerns that the museum, with its left-wing Advisory Board, would be used as a powerful tool to champion the Liberal government's interpretation of human rights, such as abortion rights, feminism, homosexuality, etc. with only some legitimate exhibits sprinkled here and there to give the museum the appearance of legitimacy.
"Fortunately the Conservative government changed the Advisory Committee in October to include individuals, mostly business men and women, with no known bias on human rights issues.
Yes. "Fortunately". Because now we know what the Canadian Museum of Human Rights is REALLY about, don't we. And Feminists like me won't have to spend any money - voluntarily - to check it out once it's been built with $100 million of our tax dollars and is humming along on a $22 million/year bribe from Stephen Harper and his New Conservative Government of Canada for more of that good ol' boy rightwing bias in CanWest's editorials and Global's newscasts.
