Summary Of Amir Attaran A Californian

In his essay the author, Amir Attaran a Californian-born Canadian expresses his belief of how the Pearsonistic Canadian government being his incentive to move to Canada had changed drastically as well as his view of the so-called “picture perfect” appearance of Canada. Amir displays this by first showing the prime ministers contradiction of his statement on how Canada deals with kidnappings from terrorists. He then proceeds to describe how there is degeneracy in the way the Governor-in-council gives the preference of exports to Canada, when the preference are intended for developing countries in order to reduce tariffs; however, it is decided only by the countries' poverty level and needs. Yet, some wealthy countries receive these preferences when there is no need for them to receive it in the first place. Amir then carries on expressing is confusion and views of the government by recounting the grave consequences that can occur in a nation when the government covers up a threatening event.
After four months of being hostages, there had been a payment of their ransom and an exchange of prisoners to retrieve them, which Prime Minister Stephen Harper had adamantly stated, (“Canada would never do to satisfy kidnappers”) (2). Thus, this contradicts the very essence of what Canada supposedly stood for, yet the government covered up this indiscretion from the public for "security"(2) reasons. However, as Amir states that this only caused citizens to realize that Canada is not the benevolent country it might claim to