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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Thu Mar 17, 2022, 01:12 PM Mar 2022

Oh Canada!

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Oh Canada! (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2022 OP

Another tweet, Bob Rae Canada's UN Ambassador Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #1

Good for Bob Rae. Also saw on his feed, Hortensis Mar 2022 #2

K&R NNadir Mar 2022 #3

The Polite ZIIIIING! 👏 electric_blue68 Mar 2022 #4

Bernardo de La Paz

(55,375 posts)

1. Another tweet, Bob Rae Canada's UN Ambassador

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Mar 17, 2022, 01:26 PM

Mar 2022

Link to tweet

Bob Rae
@BobRae48
Canada government official
Some say I should be more “diplomatic”, but this equates diplomacy with denying, running away, looking at your shoes and speaking words with, as Orwell said “the force of pure wind”. Speaking plainly in public and private is always a good idea. I shall continue to do so.
Mar 17, 2022·Twitter

https://twitter.com/bobrae48/with_replies

He has been outspoken and has lots of tweets and retweets.

There was a great one early March which I can't find now that put the whole crisis in stark honest terms.