Falseness of Purity: Canada’s “Loss” of Innocence | Global Research
The tributes paid to such a shedding of innocence did have a
condescending air. The New York Post seemed to treat Canada as an exotic
land which had finally succumbed to the threat of terrorism in a truly
continental sense. Finally, you could claim to be one of us – after all
the US had attempted to take Canada twice in the course of its history.
“Canadian soldier shot to death at memorial minutes after this photo was
taken,” was less suggestive of lament than smug satisfaction.
Importantly, the paper highlighted, on its front cover, that “Gunman
killed in Parliament; he was convert to Islam.”