Good old Kenmore. You never fail to disapoint with you’re predictability.
It was a photo-op and yes, every world leader and prominent figure should be seen to make the trip but I believe the timing and intent is no small miscalculation.
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Mr. Harper became the second Canadian prime minister after Jean Chretien in 1999 to visit Auschwitz, one of the worst killing grounds of the Holocaust.
His visit Saturday was sombre and low key, in comparison with the tears and raw emotion of the Holocaust survivors and descendents that accompanied Chretien.
"You don't know what to say. There is nothing you can say. You can only say you remember and it cannot happen again. We all have a collective responsibility to make sure it never happens again," Mr. Chretien told reporters at the time.
After the tour, Chretien laid a wreath in memory of Holocaust victims at the Hall of Remembrance. Then, after walking through the Children's Exhibit, he wrote a brief note
in Yad Vashem's guest book: "As prime minister of Canada, I pledge to you that Canada will take a leading role to ensure that such atrocities never happen again."
Too little, too late I'd say:
Canadian General Maurice Baril.
He was appointed head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations[1] (DPKO) at the UN in June 1992, where he was military advisor to then under-secretary for peacekeeping operations Kofi Annan[2]. Baril was in charge of the Military Division at DPKO during the Rwandan Genocide where his countryman General Roméo Dallaire was force commander of the UNAMIR.
He was the man back at the UN in New York to whom General Roméo Dallaire reported. Dallaire asked for permission to "seize the arms caches" of the Interahamwe militia. Permission was refused. The death toll: 800,000. This is a crime for which no one has been found responsible and yet only Canadians were involved in the UN decision.
CKA Uber 
