Gotta love this.
Stefan Jetchik, the Christian Heritage Party candidate in Louis-Hebert, complained that the ceremony was only announced the day before.
"If you want to present a medal to a person whom is not very recommendable, you will do it in a military camp, protected by soldiers, and you will announce it at the very last minute and do it in the most pro-choice province in Canada. That's exactly what is being done now, " he said.
Spokesperson Lucie Caron said that the announcement was made on Thursday because it was impossible to make it any earlier.
After the ceremony, some recipients, among them Louise Arbour, had said that they had received their invitations several weeks ago."
That is sad. They can barely disguise their panic.
After having made a short declaration on Friday, Mr. Morgentaler briefly hesitated after a journalist asked him a question. However, he left the presse conference without answering it.
According to Marthe Blouin, a spokesperson for the Governor-General, the physician's staff insisted that he not have any exchanges with the media, and they had been warned of this before his statement.
So this paragon of courage and determination, this man who survived Auschwitz and Bordeaux prison couldn't answer a lousy question from a probably friendly audience?
He sounded like he had suffered from a stroke. Is he suffering some kind of dementia? I'm not saying this to be mean. But why in the world would they not let him talk? What the heck are the afraid of?
That he'd say something controversial?
