If Stephen Harper gets a majority government, I’m seriously going to have to re-think my travel plans. I might get detained in a foreign country and the Conservatives might decide, after reading this blog, that I should rot in jail, regardless of the circumstances and regardless of whether my human rights are being violated.
That’s absurd, you say. All Canadians have fundamental rights and the federal government is prepared to go to the mattresses to make sure that they’re respected abroad. So I can relax and enjoy my pina colada. Well, that’s technically true, but the Harper Government has demonstrated that nothing — not even the human rights of Canadian citizens — is beyond politics, meaning that travelling abroad has become a risky propostion.
