The Galloping Beaver has a post on the protocols of the Order of Canada., fisking a recent article by Andrew Coyne. You can’t ‘give’ the order back you can give the snowflake back, and you can’t give back the snowflake of someone who has died.
So far, none of the Catholics who have told media they are giving back their snowflake have done so. There have been about 8 stories of people or groups that say they are going to return the symbols in religious protest. About 500 health care professionals have received the Order of Canada, the recent media coverage about Catholics upset with Dr. Henry Morgantaler has brought this civilian order to public attention. As one blogger noted, how many of the 500 performed or agree with legal abortion?
prior post: Order of Canada, Hand back the fake doctorates and we’ll talk
Update: Lifesite (a Catholic website) will pay people 8 dollars an hour to harrass members of The Order of Canada by going through the list and asking them to give their snowflake back.
Really bad idea. Disorder of Canada
via: unrepentant old hippie
Not to mention all the politicos of the center-left who are supportive of abortion. Former PM Kim Campbell got a top-level nod this year, and if I recall, she was a moderate Conservative who was “pro-choice.”
However, Morgantaler is the bogey man of the Canadian pro-lifers and is going to draw the proper hisses from the right. He personifies abortion up north like Jack Kevorkian personifies assisted suicide south of the border.