Oh ye of little faith in world leadership ...
Pause and consider how heartwarming it is
when presidents and prime ministers consult
discovering how much in common they share.
Take the instance of the unabashed admiration
Canada's prime minister has for China's premier
a democracy looking on in awe at the ease
in which a dictatorship is able to exert dominion
over a vast multitude whose numbers dwarf
those of Canada. Yet generous to a fault Canada's
own premier advises China's that in the face
of public disaffection and mounting protests it is
best to allow the public to ventilate its frustrations
honouring the human right to exercise free speech.
Canada's own response to group protests of hundreds
as opposed to China's vast protests of hundreds of
thousands swiftly settled inconvenient issues by the
timely invocation of what was once identified as the
War Measures Act. China's admirable restraint in only
ordering its national police to secure public safety
honouring the rule of the Chinese Communist Party
in its diligent concern for public health and social
cohesion strikingly similar in text and tenor to Canada's
own. Brought to agreement by a global pestilence.
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