I've written a short piece for the webzine Enter Stage Right, advocating that Conrad Black be offered Canadian citizenship by Cabinet order. A recent CBC News report indicates that there isn't a good chance of it coming to pass, though.
Another, more jaundiced, piece has been webbed by LewRockwell.com, which expresses my distaste for the general use of the "ostrich instruction." The indirect effects should be interesting to watch, though...
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Daniel, I agree with you (coincidentally, I was just writing to a friend of mine saying I might write an article urging that Lord Black be given back his Canadian citizenship), and wonder whether you have any insight into how pressure might be brought to bear on the government to effect this.
ps: Thanks for running your "Vindication or Comeuppance" site--such a valuable resource.
Mr. Ryan....... Excellent idea!!!
I have forwarded the link to your article to a friend of Adam Daifallah's. I am also sending it to Mark Steyn and will contact Mr. Black's friend and partner Peter White.....all with close Conservative ties.
It's a great idea. I hope you plan on keeping this site up for a few more weeks if not indefinitely. The battle is far from over. Mr. Black is going to fight this and there will be plenty of media coverage. We are all indebted to you. Thanks for providing a one stop site for all the media coverage. I hope you were able to turn a modest profit selling ad space.
Thanks to all three of you for your comments, as well as for the compliments. I'm glad I've done what I did.
@david derry: I don't know how pressure can be brought to bear except for a petition. Nala knows how to work the system better than I.
@nala: Best of luck with it. I should ask the editor of Enter Stage Right if he'd like to get a petition going.
@anonymous: This site will probably stay up indefinitely. As far as I know, Google doesn't delete un-updated blogs automatically, and I'm not going to delete it myself.
He has shown no morse or acknowledged the damaged he has done to others. Nature has a way of bringing people onto their correct path for fastest evolution. I'm afraid he's in the process and unfortunately it's not pleasant. But that's one way we learn right from wrong.
I suspect that his lack of remorse comes from the certitude that he was nothing more than a creature of his time, and that he was moderate compared to others. Conrad really was of his time; management irregularities of that sort used to be chuckled over 'way back when I was a lad. Writing a phillipic against them was a sure way of getting yourself labeled a self-righteous nit as of, say, 1989.
Will times change on a permanent level? I don't know; they have changed before, but not recently.
Gosh, this really is dispiriting. I just read the CBC article about Harper saying he won't do anything, and there's another CBC article about the NDP heritage critic pushing to have L.B.'s Order of Canada revoked. I suppose this is entirely predictable, but a part of me doesn't understand why people must be so partisan and pitiless in their reaction to what's befalling the man. Whether or not one thinks justice was served fairly, surely picking him apart like hyenas isn't the necessary next step.
Would this not be political suicide?
Mr. Ryan, Perhaps a writing letter campaign to Diane Finlay might be better than a petition.
http://www.dianefinley.ca/EN/contact_diane/
Perhaps, Nala, but Prime Minister Harper and Cabinet have already decided that Conrad's going through the regular line for residency status.
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