Ira de Silva London, Ontario.Canada

Mr. Stephen Woodworth, M.P.
House of Commons,
Ottawa, Ontario

Dear Sir:

I have just been made aware of your statement on Sri Lanka where you express concern about the Jaffna University students and your concerns about “human rights abuses”. What do you expect law enforcement to do when students throw petrol bombs at buildings in Canada? Congratulate the students and encourage their violence? You know that is not what Canadian law enforcementƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ does so what gives you the right to expect law enforcement in other countries to be different? Your blatant bias and double standards are, to say the least, offensive and do not reflect Canadian experience, standards or values.

It is particularly disturbing that being the M.P. for Kitchener you have obviously forgotten the hue and cry in Canada when Canadian Tamils from your area travelled to the U.S. with two million dollars to buy surface to air missiles for the Tamil terrorists. TheyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ were arrested in New York, are now convicted and in jail. These are the law abiding Canadian citizens who funded extreme terrorism in Sri Lanka from Canada with the help of Canadian politicians. It appears that you are also following this path. You may have forgotten this type of action by Canadian citizens but the people of Sri Lanka who were killed and maimed do not.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The human rights of the people of Sri Lanka were violated by Canada and what have you done to rectify that? Nothing. You are continuing to violate human rights in Sri Lanka. So much for your standards and lack of principles.

I am forwarding my comments sent to Mr. Patrick Brown regarding his biased, ignorantƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ statements on Sri Lanka which apply to you too because you are also a member of the Conservative Party. Instead of representing the Canadian values of democracy and peace you are promoting Tamil terrorist ideals of fascism andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ extreme violence against the people of Sri Lanka for a few hundred Tamil votes.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ While you talk of human rights in Sri Lanka, you are in fact violating the human rights of all Sri Lankans. Obviously you do not subscribe toƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ the Canadian values of democracy. It would be prudent to inform yourself of the activities of the Tamil terrorist supporters in your area and try not to be a spokesperson for them as they have not given up their goal of terrorism in Sri Lanka.

Yours truly,

Ira de Silva
London, Ontario.