Dion: A question of loyalty

I was shocked to learn yesterday that newly-elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Stephane Dion, is a dual-citizen.

What was not shocking at all was his inability to understand why he MUST renounce his French citizenship.

It boggles the mind how someone who hopes to be Prime Minister someday can think that it is appropriate for him to hold the citizenship of another country. The logic is so simple, so instinctive, that I don’t even know where to start to explain it.

I don’t care that he doesn’t vote in French elections and I don’t care that he doesn’t have French passport. The fact of the matter is that he can vote and he can get a passport; its there for the asking.

Dion’s intransigence on the matter smacks of the same tired Liberal arrogance that we’ve spent the past decades putting up with in Canada. But it should not surprise us. It is, after all, coming from the man who was the Environment Minister while the Liberals signed the Kyoto Accord and then did nothing to reduce so-called greenhouse gases. (That ‘Global Warming’ is a fallacy is a whole other matter) Dion was also the Intergovernmental Affairs Minister while ‘Adscam’ was in full swing.

Its clear to me that integrity, or even the appearance of it, is not high on Dion’s mind.