Angry in the Great White North

Conservative MP Jason Kenney has called out Stephane Dion on the matter of Farhan Chak:

Dion Needs to Denounce or Fire Violent, Extremist Liberal Candidate

EDMONTON - Jason Kenney, Conservative Member of Parliament today demanded that Stephane Dion denounce or fire Farhan Mujahid Chak as the nominated Liberal candidate for Edmonton - Mill Woods - Beaumont.

Chak was also Stephane Dion's Edmonton Campaign Manager for his 2006 Liberal Leadership Campaign.

In 1993 a Farhan Mujahid Chak, then 19 was arrested for firing a shotgun into a popular Edmonton nightclub.

"Stephane Dion should show some leadership and come clean about the background of Farhan Mujahid Chak," said Kenney. "Has Stephane Dion ever raised questions about the background of Farhan Mujahid Chak?"

In 1999, Mr. Chak wrote a letter to the Edmonton Journal accusing India of "grotesque human rights violations." The next year, he claimed that India is not a free country.

In 2000, Mr. Chak referred to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "butcher", accused Israel of "terrorism, massacres and savagery" and even "the pillage, the rape and the enslavement of an entire population."

In a 2002 article for an American Islamic publication, Mr. Chak suggested that terrorist attacks within France were not committed by Algerian Islamists, but rather by "unseen hands" including "such co-conspirators as the French government."

Last year, Mr. Chak even threw baseless charges of "exclusiveness, racial superiority, injustice and arrogance" at the new Conservative government in a local Polish publication. Mr. Chak added that Canada was "trying to destabilize Poland" through its foreign aid programs.

"Erratic behavior and extremism have no place in Canadian politics, and yet the Liberals have nominated an individual who appears to be guilty of both," said Kenney. "It's time for Stephane Dion to come clean and tell the Canadian people whether or not gun violence and political extremism have a home in the Liberal Party of Canada."

I guess we wait for a response from the Liberals, which surprises me. Stephane Dion ought to have moved on this already. By waiting this long, Jason Kenney has turned what is Stephane Dion's only reasonable course of action, dumping Chak, into a demand for action from the Conservatives. Stephane Dion will end up doing what he was going to do in the first place, but now the optics look much lousier.

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