Phil discusses Niki Ashton in the context of Bernie Sanders. Sanders' success so far comes from the fact that he has been a consistent social-democrat who calls for public programs. Ashton, too, has supported progressive policies. She even criticized Trudeau's disgraceful meeting with Venezuelan golpista Juan Guaido.
The Canadian parliament mostly upholds a distinctly colonial view that if we decide someone is the President of a country, then they become the President. But Ashton spoke firmly against this policy as applied to Guaido.
The colonial mindset also applies to Canada's response to the air tragedy in Iran. "The West" demands the black box recorder from the crashed airliner, even though Iran and Ukraine possess the means to investigate the recording. Meanwhile, "The West" lost the black box from a shot-down Rwandan airliner in 1994 that was pivotal to the trial and investigation of civil war there.
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