Of course this condemnation by the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food” (that’s also not a joke) has nothing to do with Canada being led by Stephen Harper’s conservative government.
Via The Telegraph:
The United Nations Human Rights Council has just launched a broadside against, wait for it, Canada. Its preposterously titled ‘Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,’ Olivier De Schutter, has accused the Canadians of unacceptable “rates of food insecurity,” and has called on the federal government in Ottawa to adopt “a national right to food strategy.” Mr De Schutter himself is no stranger to controversy, recently penning a piece for The Guardian calling for the establishment of supranational “human rights courts” to address climate change. […]
Stephen Harper’s Conservative administration has rightly blasted the UN report, as well as UN interference in the sovereign affairs of one of the world’s leading democracies. Canada’s health minister Leona Aglukkaq met with De Schutter, describing him as “an ill-informed, patronizing academic studying, once again, the aboriginal people, Inuit and Canada’s Arctic from afar.”
One would think the United Nations would be concerned with real deprivation and hunger, in places like North Korea and Zimbabwe, instead of focusing on one of the richest countries in the world, with among the highest overall living standards on the planet. Even the UN’s own Human Development Index (HDI) ranks Canada sixth in the world out of 187 countries. But then again, De Schutter represents the discredited UN Human Rights Council, which includes in its membership some of the world’s worst human rights abusers, such as China, Cuba, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Its bar has been set so low that even Libya under Colonel Gaddafi was elected to membership. The HRC is a farce, and their latest report on Canada is further proof of it.