Via reader email - Canada Free Press has "never-seen-before film footage taking you back to January 3, 2005 when Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his entourage made an official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sir Lanka."
Included in the Jan. 3 entourage were Martin's wife, Sheila, PMO staff, Jack Layton, leader of Canada's fourth party, the New Democrat Party, RCMP, and a handful of Canadian journalists, including the CBC.The film footage was shot by award-winning Canadian documentary journalist, Garth Pritchard, who was on the scene prior to Martin's visit at the invitation of Canada's mercy mission DART team.
You will hear how an RCMP officer tried to relieve Pritchard of his camera. Pritchard's voice can easily be picked up when he tells the officer that, "This is not Canada, this is Sri Lanka."
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See for yourself how the film footage shows the padre being pushed aside and how overzealous members of the Martin entourage physically knock a Sri Lankan mourner to the ground - without apology.
Ostensibly, the Prime Minister's official visit to tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka was about Canadian compassion.
See and hear for yourself how he shills the purified water of Zenon Environmental Inc., an Oakville-based company of which his lifetime mentor Maurice Strong is a board member.
See and hear some of the film highlights, including Padre Hardwick trying to do the job he was asked to do: namely honouring the dead. Padre Hardwick calls for a Moment of Silence. Fifteen seconds into the Moment of Silence, Prime Minister Martin ends it, saying, "Let's go."
I can't play this on my computer - so haven't yet watched it. Let me know what you think in the comments.
Video is here. It's a 25 meg file, so you'll need hispeed.
Deliver the footage to Fox News now.
Get it onto TV, pronto.
Peter Kent will assist you.
Fox News. Hurry.
Its too bad really but Mr Pritchard was interfered with too much to really get the meat of it. But you can see the effort from the PMO crowd too keep the PM from the locals, and the PM's contempt for the Padre.
I am not sure though that overall it will have any adverse effect on the PM's standing. If Adscam doesnt do it, this film wont either. Hope I am wrong.
The photo of the creep swigging the bottled water with creep-wanna-be looking on is an indictment of them both.
Look on Canadians.
Unspeakable.
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."
The Beatitudes, Matthew 5:6. (KJV)
A couple of nice moments:
1:58. The RCMP security turd threatens Pritchard with physical violence for filming the event.
About 5:30. Martin's annoying female handler tells the PM he needs to repeat what he has just said in English, "en Francais", apparently for the SRC sound bite. The man is nothing more than a sock puppet. Mind you, he was probably tired from the trip all the way there just so he could push Maurice Strong's waster purification business interests.
how come I can only get the audio?
If you ask me, that's 100 times more callous than "Now watch this drive."
I realize Martin is a busy man, but if his sole purpose of going to Sri Lanka was for a few pictures and soundbites for the press, he is a very poor ambassador of goodwill for our country. The fact that he couldn't give a minute of respect for the tens of thousands of people that died speaks volumes.
"Let's go." He should be ashamed.
Pretty sad - this needs to be seen by more than ten people.
I'm surprised he didn't just go to a Hollyweird (or Vancouver) sound stage and fake the thing.
It sounds as thought it has the makings of a magnificent campaign ad.
Only with well done agenda-driven editing. The truth has to go.
Kate,
I can convert the format if you want to see it. if so email me privately with what you want to use and I'll drop it on a server.
Is anyone actually surprised by this?
canadafreepress.com has the story:
Caught on tape: Paul Martin's photo-op from Human Tragedy
His boyfriend Jackie shown in the background in a world of hurt to see PM Dithers in such agony. Jackie will offer comfort, no worries there.....
And there you have Canada in a nutshell. Sometimes you have to stand a long way back before you can see yourself as you really are.
The fiendishly ambitious but imbecilic puppet ruler; the crony capitalists standing behind the curtains; the false show of concern for the unfortunate; the goons; and the ad agency reps and the media making sure that ensure that the real product - the water - is the only thing in the money shot. The media show their obedience by grovelling in the dirt, the better to portray their ruler as generous and heroic. The well-meaning but na�ve functionaries are ignored and then pushed aside, for the sin of having taken the powerful at their word.
The Sri Lankans are stand-ins for the Canadian people - actually I'm pretty sure that most of them will be Canadian people in a couple of months - as they watch in bewilderment and try to square their image of Canada as a rich, free and caring nation with the pack of vultures they see in front of them.
I downloaded it as well but could only get the sound.
I down loaded twice and tried 3 different players but only got sound.
Help.
Same here. Downloaded and tried it several times. THEN everything crashed. Took forever to get things back up and running...geez!
Did they boobytrap the thing to keep us from seeing it??
Garth Pritchard, who shot the video, wrote about this in the Toronto Sun back in January. At the time I wrote an email to the Sun which they published. It went like this:
The Difference:
When George W. Bush visits the troops, he serves them turkey.
When Paul Martin visits the troops, he is the turkey.
Not sure if this will help or not, but I'm able to play .avi movies, and I've downloaded the DivX codec...
http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/
Download the one for your operating system, and then try Windows Media Player and hopefully it will work.
About playback...
Yeah, it looks like it is encoded with the DivX version of AVI. As Shabbadoo says, go install the CoDec and all should go well.
I did find that it works better if you save it to your machine and view from there (right-click the link and choose "Save Target As...").
The video is identified internally as ISO MPEG-4 encoded (ffmpeg), at 29 frames per second, for 6 minutes and 31 seconds. Audio is MP3. Played just fine for me on Linux (Totem Movie Player), even if the sound is a little on the quiet side.
Finding a compatible player on Windows, though, can be more of a challenge.
It's not the player, it's the codec. Divx is mighty common but if you've never had a reason to install it . . .
The other choice would be to use Videolan:
http://www.videolan.org/
It's a small viewer that supports most everything natively.
I viewed the video twice last night. What a disgusting performance by our supposed "leader".
There was no sign of concern for those people. Just get in, get the shot and the soundbite, and get the hell out.
The fact that I then watch his performance in the Netherlands just afterward, put a whole new spin on that trip for me!
Typical Liberal - a day late and a dollar short.
Asking the doctor if he can hold the kid's hand while he is being treated - does the man have no shame? How about talking to the lead doctor and asking "What do you need here to help these people?" Followed up by "I'll have it on the next plane for you."
I've never really liked Martin, but after seeing that video, I now truly dis-like him.
The format on this is piss-poor. I don't care if you can go somewhere to download some stupid plug in. If this video is to have any impact, it must be made so that ANYONE can view it easily using Realplayer or windows media player.
Sounds like "Real World" meets "Wag the Dog".
Groovy is right
WTF
The libs are going to win with this kind of shit