This issue will simply not go away... and rightly so. I know I'm doing my part to keep it on the front burner.
Now the government has delayed making an announcement on future federal AIDS programs until well after the conference ends. That's concerning. Mr. Harper says the conference has become "too politicized", but our friend Stephen Lewis counters that assertion in this morning's Globe and Mail.
Mr. Harper is being “rather naive” by claiming the conference had become too politicized to make an announcement, said Stephen Lewis, the former Ontario NDP leader and United Nations special envoy for AIDS.
“These conferences are always political,” Mr. Lewis said, because they are attended by activists and the leading scientific and policy experts in the field.
“What he really means is people have criticized him for not being here, and he brought that on himself,” Mr. Lewis told CBC Newsworld.
Here's the money quote from the Globe piece:
The conference, which wraps up Friday, drew an estimated 31,000 delegates from around the world to Toronto. Mr. Harper has been touring military bases and diamond mines in the Far North this week.
Read more about this national embarrassment in today's Toronto Star and Globe and Mail. (The Star only makes its archives available for 7 days, so you can download a pdf of the article here if you missed it.)
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