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Canadian governments are often portrayed as Dudley Do-Right, a caricature member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the 1960s television cartoon series, who was always trying to do good; never caught the villain, never got satisfaction from the girl. That was because Dudley had less brains than his horse, who did better with the girl. Since Dudley, er Justin Trudeau became prime minister of Canada a year ago, the PR gap between the caricature and the prime minister has widened; the IQ gap has contracted; the distance to the villain and the girl has stayed the same.
The villain in the new Dudley Do-Right cartoon on Canadian policy is Russia. Canadian special forces are fighting Russia on both the Ukraine and Syria war fronts.
Canada has given Kiev C$400 million (US$305 million) to pay the Ukrainian army, backed by most Canadian non-government organizations (NGOs) insisting they are on Do-Right's side. One in particular, Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) of Ottawa, the Canadian capital, leads the charge against diamonds, gold and other mineral developers, many of them Russian, who compete or threaten Canadian mining interests. PAC, it turns out,
is a weapon of commercial and economic warfare. Financially, it belongs to the US State Department and US investors, George Soros and Pierre Omidyar.
Canada is the largest mining investor in the African continent's mineral resources. According to Yves Engler, a leading Canadian critic of Canadian policy, Canadian companies
control about half of all foreign mining projects in 35 African countries, worth about C$31 billion. Canadian government policy, Engler reports, "is synonymous with the interests of [Canadian] mining companies."
Comment: Chances are that the bulk of Daesh has already left Mosul. But for those still holed up in Mosul, this will make escaping a bit more difficult. We wonder if Iran had any influence on the Shia militias taking up this position, to help secure their ally Syria from fleeing jihadis?