Kline Questions DePape's Sincerity...

Jesse Kline: DePape doesn’t understand what the Arabs are fighting for


Winston Churchill is often attributed as saying that, if you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart and if you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no brain. So it’s hard to fault young Brigette DePape — the Senate page who was ejected from Friday’s speech from the throne after holding up a “Stop Harper” sign — for being idealistic.

DePape called for a “Canadian version of an Arab Spring.” That’s right, we should all take to the streets and demand free and fair elections — you know, like the one we had on May 2. Now you’d think that a college student would know that we enjoy the freedom and system of government that thousands of Arabs are fighting, and dying, to achieve. But she somehow thinks that our first-past-the-post system invalidates the entire democratic process. I suppose we should expect contradictions like this from someone who professes to support democracy, but took a job in the unelected Senate.

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