Next year is an election year in the U.S. and President Bill Clinton is once again worried about family values.
Acting on the advice of his handlers, the president has begun to shy away from liberal interest groups, trying to position himself as a more moderate president.
Thus, the U.S. delegation could not afford to look like radicals at the United Nations Women’s Conference in Beijing. Clinton is no ideologue – he knows few Americans care about a women’s conference in China. He also knows that his contingent couldn’t publicly support anything drastic, for fear of getting it from Bob Dole and fellow Republicans.
So the U.S. delegation was under strict orders to keep a low profile. Even Hillary Rodham Clinton was unusually coy about promoting the lesbian and abortion agenda, no doubt in deference to her husband’s wishes.
The Canadian delegation did not have to bow to such public pressure and was therefore not silent. Our contingent seemed more than happy to stooge for the silenced U.S. crew, to carry out their dirty work.
Team Canada was chosen and staffed by bureaucrats. Not once were our elected representatives ever consulted as to who would go on our team. Our delegation pushed a radical social-engineering agenda—not at all reflective of what the average Canadian supports.
Until now, Canada has had the well-deserved reputation of being a rich and generous country, always supporting UN aid and peacekeeping ventures. Many of the developing countries present at Beijing have been—and still are—beneficiaries of Canadian largesse.
These countries, who have the strongest regard for the family, were thus bewildered and dismayed by Canada’s peculiar stance at Beijing.
Imagine their shock (as well as our own) at the following items sponsored and/or supported by our delegation:
- Abortion should be a world-wide women’s right
- Parents should not have the right to supervise the medical and educational needs of their children
- “Sexual orientation” should be designated as a human right
- Nations should not have the right to refuse international policies that contravene their religious and cultural principles.
According to Harvard law professor and head of the Vatican delegation Mary Ann Glendon, “of the 15 references to motherhood [in the UN draft document], only one is positive; 12 portray it in a negative light, as an impediment to self-realization.”
None of this is at all representative of what Canadian women want from the UN. Nor does it reflect what women from developing countries want for themselves. It is only the extremist agenda of extreme North American feminists.
Why then did our Canadian delegation support such nonsense? The only possible reason is that our delegates, working hand-in-hand with the larger U.S. team, are so imbued with old-style, militant feminists principles as to be completely out-of-touch with reality.
Having been in place so long with unchecked government support and little or no monitoring, a Canadian feminocracy is now entrenched at the UN. All initiatives emanating from this coterie at Beijing and past conference betray that tell-tale rhetoric, those same mind-numbing radical feminist principles.
The Clinton administration obviously shares many of these same tenets but was in no position to express its sentiments. So, wittingly or not, our delegates, like lackeys, did their work for them.
Our representatives could have accomplished so much at Beijing. We could have sponsored such proposals as:
- Less government spending on military and family-planning budgets and more on women’s health-care and education.
- Caring for the world’s refugees, 75% of whom are women and children
- Strengthening traditional marriages and celebrating the central role which women play in them
- Creating an atmosphere favourable to motherhood and childbirth, two ideals so important to women in developing countries.
Canadians had a chance to do something useful towards improving life for the world’s less fortunate women. Instead, our delegation decided to bulldoze through an ideological agenda which benefits no women.
In doing so, they managed to embarrass our country on a global scale.
