One never knows what’s going to fall out of ol’ Lizzie’s mouth. And Green Leader Elizabeth May has uttered some reckless doozies. But she’s never confessed to treason before..That’s exactly what May recently did, having the shocking, disrespectful, audacity to do so, while standing beside our beloved Canadian flag..She once branded the RCMP as a “racist institution.” She introduced a petition to the House of Commons calling for the repeal of laws around public nudity. She said the fossil fuel sector should be “shut down” and tweeted “Yahoo” when US President Joe Biden revoked the presidential permits to Keystone XL. She distributed allegations of Kremlin involvement in the Freedom Convoy calling the falsehood “hair raising.”.In 2015, she delivered a vulgar speech at a press gallery dinner and said convicted terrorist Omar Khdar had “more class than the whole f***ing cabinet.” It goes on..May champions measures that are offensive, ridiculous, and harmful to Canadians. She’s gotten away with it, virtually unchallenged — afforded leniency because she’s excused as being a bit of a flake and whines that outspoken women are discriminated against..No excuse this time. Treason is an unforgivable offence and May must be held accountable. When a politician pledges allegiance to a foreign entity that’s a violation of the oath of allegiance to Canada all members of parliament must take when sworn in..Seems like May forgot about that..“I take my marching orders from the permanent representative of Palestine to Canada,” said May on November 29, at a Canadian-Palestine Parliamentary Group event on Parliament Hill..May, along with Liberal Transport Minister Omar Alghbra, hosted known anti-semite and Holocaust denier Nazih Khatatba, editor of Meshwar Media, an Arabic-language newspaper. May proudly trotted to the mic to make her declaration with a Palestinian scarf draped around her neck, and a Palestine flag to her right..Someone should remind May Canadian taxpayers, not the Palestinian representative to Canada, have paid her salary since 2011 when she was first elected to represent the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding. And her job is to take marching orders from Canadians..Predictably, a few tweeted that May’s comments were taken out of context. But, it was a direct statement, so that falls flat. And even if it were taken out of context, neither May nor the Green Party offered evidence to contradict it..“That was a seven-second clip taken out of context. Surely, you’re aware of that,” May’s patronizing Chief of Staff Debra Eindiguer told the Western Standard. But no, she wouldn’t provide clarification, and May “hasn’t done any interviews on that.” And no, she didn’t have the full audio clip..Well, if May’s statement was taken out of context and she doesn’t take her marching orders from a foreign entity, her long list of past comments — saturated with wild statements about Israel — show she’s ignorant of true Israeli-Palestinian affairs. Some might even call them bold-faced fibs..The Green Party is no stranger to criticism for holding anti-Semitic views. May insists she’s not anti-Israeli, but somehow always portrays Israeli as the occupier, the aggressor, the only side that bears any guilt..In 2018, upon returning from a trip to the Middle East with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, organized by the Canada-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group, May accused Israeli snipers of carrying out a “systematic plan to murder unarmed civilians” in a “peaceful protest.”.No, she didn’t mention that the terrorist organization Hamas implemented violent riots near the border fence and used that to carry out terrorist attacks — shooting at Israeli troops, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails near Israeli towns. And no, it wasn’t important that during an outbreak of violence, 20 of the 32 Palestinians killed carrying out these attacks belonged to terrorist organizations..Last June, May stood in the House and delivered a deceptive statement about two female Palestinian journalists who were killed during riots in the West Bank. “Madam Speaker, Shireen Abu Aqla. Ghufran Warasneh. Say their names. Women Palestinian journalists killed while doing their jobs: Covering what was going on before their eyes. They were killed by the Israeli military and somehow even more shocking, their funerals were attacked by the Israeli military. The pallbearers were blocked as they tried to take them to their place of eternal rest.”.False! Abu Aqla’s funeral not attacked by the Israeli army. Arrangements had been made between Israeli police and the Abu Aqla family for the procession to travel a certain route. Her coffin was confiscated by some pallbearers and Israeli police were trying to get it back on the planned route for safety reasons. And she was killed when Israeli counter-terrorism forces went into the West Bank to apprehend terrorists responsible for waves of terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. May also neglected to mention that Israeli forces acknowledged shortcomings — but ballistic and forensic analysis determined there was a likelihood that she was accidentally killed by a stray Israeli bullet, but that was inconclusive..“We must, in this country, say something. We must do something. We call for an independent inquiry into the killing of these two brave, women Palestinian journalists. Canada must step up,” said May..The profound arrogance of May, who wants Canadians to be free to run around nude, to demand an inquiry into Israeli affairs..“The notion that Israel’s investigation cannot be neutral, objective and credible is really an uncalled-for statement,” said Mike Fegelman, executive director of HonestReporting Canada, that promotes fairness in reporting and calls out anti-Jewish bias..Fegelman said May’s “disturbing” comment goes far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict..“The notion that a leader of a federal party in the Canadian government would say that they take their directives from the Canadian representative of a foreign government is deeply alarming.”.“We always think about the idea of foreign interference in Canadian politics. Here you have a politician who isn’t shy to say ‘I take my marching orders from the permanent representative to Canada from the Palestine territory.’”.“Imagine if it was Justin Trudeau who said ‘I take my bidding from the Russian government.’ People would be outraged.”.May once said: “When women raise their voices to be heard over the noise, they sound hysterical. It’s a sexist word. If you lose control over your lower register, you’re going to be seen as a nut.”.Or maybe, it’s what one says that gets them labelled so..May needs to come clean — publicly — on exactly what marching orders she has taken. Full disclosure.
