A Room of My Own: Prime Minister's Words Tanka

dragging his feet

through one apology

after another

Prime Minister's words suspended 

in the hot air of Parliament

FYI: The Tyee, September 28: Will Trudeau Survive the Nazi Affair?: In a season of stumbles, he’s added one more by slow-walking his apologies.

Yesterday Justin Trudeau apologized for unwittingly honouring a former Nazi in Canada’s Parliament.

He apologized to the Jewish community, the Ukrainians, the Roma and everyone else who suffered from the scourge of Adolf Hitler and his mad-dog fascism. But it was a day late and strangely hollow.

Justin Trudeau’s no-show in Parliament on the day House Speaker Anthony Rota resigned in disgrace, is the story here. It marks a new low in the PM’s political career, even though he took every question in question period today.

Instead of standing up to the barrage of insults, demands and denunciations that he knew was coming, he sent House leader Karina Gould into the fray to take the heat. In a voice sometimes reduced to a whisper, Gould did her best to take one for the team.

And for more, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, September 28: NaziGate in Parliament

Yves Engler's interview with Richard Sanders on the roots, relevance and rationale of NaziGate in Parliament. In 2021 Sanders authored Cold War Canada: Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots 

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first moon festival

since my father's death

a taste of mooncake

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another year ...

the scent of chrysanthemums

in father's absence

reprinted in The Pan Haiku Review, 2, 2024

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the cries

of broken English, Chinese

and jumbled words ...

my old friend gapes out

the nursing home window