Please, can someone — anyone — explain this to me? I am baffled that our premier was making his eighth trip to China to sell lobsters that have already sold themselves, and chose not be here this week to welcome former U.S. president Barack Obama. The African Nova Scotian community continues to struggle for meaningful and complete equality — what a perfect opportunity it should have been for our premier to turn up.
And the idea that, as part of his trip, he'd raise human-rights abuses about the ongoing detention of Canadians in China, while his government continues to unlawfully institutionalize people with intellectual disabilities — really?
And don't get me started on the fact that the premier also missed Remembrance Day — an affront to our veterans, including my grandfather and father.
I feel so embarrassed that the premier showed such a disregard for African Nova Scotians, our veterans and a former exemplary statesman by simply not being at home.
S. Dulcie McCallum, St. Mary's Municipality and Halifax (former member of Canada's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities delegation to the UN)
