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Paul Martin's photo-op from Human Tragedy
You'll never see this on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
That's because it's incredible, shot-on-site film footage that Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn't want you to see. Canadafreepress.com editors decided to post it here so that you can judge for yourself.
It's never-seen-before film footage taking you back to January 3, 2005 when Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his entourage made an official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sir Lanka.
Included in the Jan. 3 entourage were Martin's wife, Sheila, PMO staff, Jack Layton, leader of Canada's fourth party, the New Democrat Party, RCMP, and a handful of Canadian journalists, including the CBC.
The film footage was shot by award-winning Canadian documentary journalist, Garth Pritchard, who was on the scene prior to Martin's visit at the invitation of Canada's mercy mission DART team.
You will hear how an RCMP officer tried to relieve Pritchard of his camera. Pritchard's voice can easily be picked up when he tells the officer that, "This is not Canada, this is Sri Lanka."
In order to make the film Internet friendly, Pritchard worked to edit it down from its original 58 minutes.
It starts with the moment the Prime Minister's helicopter lands in Kalumai, and coincides with the very moment that bereaved Sir Lankans are waiting for Padre Captain J.B. Hardwick to say a few words over their lost loved ones, laid out in 13,000 freshly-dug graves.
See for yourself how the film footage shows the padre being pushed aside and how overzealous members of the Martin entourage physically knock a Sri Lankan mourner to the groundâ “without apology.
Ostensibly, the Prime Minister's official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka was about Canadian compassion.
See and hear for yourself how he shills the purified water of Zenon Environmental Inc., an Oakville-based company of which his lifetime mentor Maurice Strong is a board member.
See and hear some of the film highlights, including Padre Hardwick trying to do the job he was asked to do: namely honouring the dead. Padre Hardwick calls for a Moment of Silence. Fifteen seconds into the Moment of Silence, Prime Minister Martin ends it, saying, "Let's go."
Swigging from a bottle of Zenon purified water, he says repeatedly, "C'est excellent!"
Martin passes the bottle to wife, Sheila, who swigs from it, pronouncing distinctly, "Better than at home!
NDP leader Jack Layton, who, when he's in Canada, promotes himself to the public as a strong Prime Minister opponent, beams at the PM as the proudest of close personal friends. If you listen, you can clearly hear Layton ask as photographers line up the Zenon photo-op: "Is that the water? Is that the water?"
Mainstream Canadian compassion is understood globally. Average Canadians sent some $40-million to Sri Lanka--that has yet to arrive!
Their prime minister disgraced the image of 'The Compassionate Canadian' in a single photo op.
But even worse than that, Martin chose to shill for a Canadian-owned water company linked to his personal mentor in a Sri Lanka that was locked in heartbreaking grief.
Not only Canadians would agree that Sri Lankans deserve so much better than that.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover050905.htm
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Here is the video, make sure to have the volume up, some parts can be hard to hear.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/audio/martinzenon.avi
Particularly bad is when the "lady in red" (the PM's handler) is interrupting the Padre trying to move the PM along when he (the Padre) is trying saw a few words, and to get them to stop for a moment of silence.
You'll never see this on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
That's because it's incredible, shot-on-site film footage that Prime Minister Paul Martin doesn't want you to see. Canadafreepress.com editors decided to post it here so that you can judge for yourself.
It's never-seen-before film footage taking you back to January 3, 2005 when Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his entourage made an official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sir Lanka.
Included in the Jan. 3 entourage were Martin's wife, Sheila, PMO staff, Jack Layton, leader of Canada's fourth party, the New Democrat Party, RCMP, and a handful of Canadian journalists, including the CBC.
The film footage was shot by award-winning Canadian documentary journalist, Garth Pritchard, who was on the scene prior to Martin's visit at the invitation of Canada's mercy mission DART team.
You will hear how an RCMP officer tried to relieve Pritchard of his camera. Pritchard's voice can easily be picked up when he tells the officer that, "This is not Canada, this is Sri Lanka."
In order to make the film Internet friendly, Pritchard worked to edit it down from its original 58 minutes.
It starts with the moment the Prime Minister's helicopter lands in Kalumai, and coincides with the very moment that bereaved Sir Lankans are waiting for Padre Captain J.B. Hardwick to say a few words over their lost loved ones, laid out in 13,000 freshly-dug graves.
See for yourself how the film footage shows the padre being pushed aside and how overzealous members of the Martin entourage physically knock a Sri Lankan mourner to the groundâ “without apology.
Ostensibly, the Prime Minister's official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka was about Canadian compassion.
See and hear for yourself how he shills the purified water of Zenon Environmental Inc., an Oakville-based company of which his lifetime mentor Maurice Strong is a board member.
See and hear some of the film highlights, including Padre Hardwick trying to do the job he was asked to do: namely honouring the dead. Padre Hardwick calls for a Moment of Silence. Fifteen seconds into the Moment of Silence, Prime Minister Martin ends it, saying, "Let's go."
Swigging from a bottle of Zenon purified water, he says repeatedly, "C'est excellent!"
Martin passes the bottle to wife, Sheila, who swigs from it, pronouncing distinctly, "Better than at home!
NDP leader Jack Layton, who, when he's in Canada, promotes himself to the public as a strong Prime Minister opponent, beams at the PM as the proudest of close personal friends. If you listen, you can clearly hear Layton ask as photographers line up the Zenon photo-op: "Is that the water? Is that the water?"
Mainstream Canadian compassion is understood globally. Average Canadians sent some $40-million to Sri Lanka--that has yet to arrive!
Their prime minister disgraced the image of 'The Compassionate Canadian' in a single photo op.
But even worse than that, Martin chose to shill for a Canadian-owned water company linked to his personal mentor in a Sri Lanka that was locked in heartbreaking grief.
Not only Canadians would agree that Sri Lankans deserve so much better than that.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover050905.htm
----------------
Here is the video, make sure to have the volume up, some parts can be hard to hear.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/audio/martinzenon.avi
Particularly bad is when the "lady in red" (the PM's handler) is interrupting the Padre trying to move the PM along when he (the Padre) is trying saw a few words, and to get them to stop for a moment of silence.