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QUICK DISPATCH: PAUL MARTIN, GREAT DEFENDER OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS!

This report on CTV came just as predicted. Paul Martin says he does not want to hold a Christmas election for fear of offending religious groups.

"When you are talking about the holiday season, there are also other religions that have different New Year's at different dates and their holidays at a different date and I think we have to be respectful of that -- the orthodox churches, for example," he said.
"It's up to the opposition. I don't want a Christmas election."

Isn't this the same Paul Martin, who for the past year has insisted that religious observances have no place in public life or government decisions?

Isn't this the same Paul Martin who had no problem with ministers such as Pierre Pettigrew telling Catholics and others that they should sit down and shut up when it came to certain contentious legislation that he and the Liberal Party of Canada were trying to pass?

Isn't this the same Paul Martin that said certain orthodox religious groups were a threat to democracy and were bad Canadians in the last election?

I had very little time for Jean Chretien...but at least you knew where you stood with him.

Paul Martin's continued contempt and politicization of ethnic and religious groups in this country is despicable and dare I say truly racist.

That many ethnic and orthodox Canadians will fall for this saddens me deeply.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 8:46 AM