69 million page views

Sent to Stephen Harper, PM of Canada

Reader comment on item: Canada's Muslims Provide "Strategic Advice on Relations with the Muslim World"

Submitted by Katherine Mclean (United States), Apr 17, 2006 at 21:04

The expansion of the role of DFAIT in the form of FMCG is most troubling. This unit , obviously unelected , presumes to inform even the Prime Minister and certainly the Minister of Foreign Affairs "providing timely, strategic advice on relations with the Muslim world, and the lead in creating a policy framework for our overall approach to this subject.

As such, the FMCG should be consulted at headquarters and by posts on the broad range of issues affecting Canada's relations with Muslim communities, including public diplomacy efforts, and will take the lead in coordinating the Department's response to many of them". These were the folks who told you to condemn those newspapers brave enough to publish a caricature weren't they? Bad advice in a country that believes in free speech.

Most troubling is the appointment of one Crystal Procyshen as "both a policy and operations officer" Ms. Procyshen has made her anti-Semitic views abundantly clear www.al-bushra.org/Truth/procyshen.htm - In this childishly emotional account of a trip to the Palestinian Territories she not only had an abundance of "facts" incredibly wrong, she sounded unprofessional and down right sappy. Is this what is to inform our foreign policy? . Given that she does have a MA in Middle East studies it can safely be assumed that her "mistakes" leaned more to the side of sheer propaganda of the type that hopes that if a "fact" is repeated often enough and by someone with, oh I don't know, say a MA in Middle East Studies we are going to believe it. The only thing left out of this ridiculous piece of writing was the camp fire and a few rounds of something and I don't mean Kumbya. She is PROFESSIONALLY anti-emetic and has an anti-Israeli, ANTI- SEMITIC agenda. Plain and simple.

.Ms. Procyshen may have the credibility to lead yet another "peace" march someplace but as for providing our ELECTED officials with strategy and advice she most definitely does not. Each time an anti-Israeli statement is issued by the Canadians…will we trace it back to FMCG and the redoubtable Ms Proyshen and of course David Mulroney? Are our elected officials to be the mouthpieces for these extreme views of a far left-over liberal? Will Prime Minister Harper appoint David Mulroney, the man who thinks of her as "able", to the position of advisor on foreign policy? Is Canada still being run by a bunch of Liberal bureaucrats?

IS CANADIAN POLICY TO BE DECIDED BY A SPECIAL GROUP WHO ARE MOTIVATED BY EXTREME VIEWS AND A SELF PROMOTING AGENDA namely the FMCG. Why should any group, culture, or religion have a special route to the ear of the Prime Minister and be able to order the Canadian bureaucracy to produce their views as official Canadian foreign policy. . Sir. You are putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Katherine McLean
Submitting....

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".

Submit a comment on this item

<< Previous Comment      Next Comment >>

Reader comments (16) on this item

Title Commenter Date Thread
With friends like Canada... [61 words]TedApr 22, 2006 05:5043801
Sent to Stephen Harper, PM of Canada [476 words]Katherine McleanApr 17, 2006 21:0443432
Figures...a special anti-semite group to give "advice" to the PM? [51 words]J.S.Apr 18, 2006 15:0343432
It is time for all Christians to take a stand for Christ [125 words]Bev RoseApr 24, 2006 22:5343432
Ok OK [249 words]Katherine McLeanApr 17, 2006 19:0243424
Tell us about Mecca [26 words]Melvin A. FechterApr 16, 2006 19:2443326
Canadian Crystal Procyshen - more Canadian than we realize [219 words]Nabil ShwarmaApr 16, 2006 09:2943294
Canada's DFAIT [364 words]SheriApr 14, 2006 13:4643189
DFAIT [22 words]KamApr 16, 2006 08:3243189
And when I thought Canada was waking up... [151 words]van der LeyApr 13, 2006 00:0543085
HISTORICAL DECISION BY CANADIANS- HISTORY WILL BE WRITTEN IN GOLDEN WORDS [67 words]Iraqi BoyApr 10, 2006 02:2042827
Bienvenue a Canada Welcome to Canada Salam Aleykum fi Kanada [247 words]Nabil ShwarmaApr 9, 2006 12:2242794
Good Point [197 words]VijayApr 9, 2006 07:4442786
Great Decision by canadian Govt. [45 words]Muhammad_jesus_moses_adamApr 9, 2006 04:2642779
Muhammad_jesus_moses_adam [67 words]Anubhav SinghApr 10, 2006 04:4742779
Where is the... [49 words]AlanApr 9, 2006 03:4542777

Follow Daniel Pipes

Facebook   Twitter   RSS   Join Mailing List

All materials by Daniel Pipes on this site: © 1968-2024 Daniel Pipes. daniel.pipes@gmail.com and @DanielPipes

Support Daniel Pipes' work with a tax-deductible donation to the Middle East Forum.Daniel J. Pipes

(The MEF is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Tax-ID 23-774-9796, approved Apr. 27, 1998.

For more information, view our IRS letter of determination.)