Will Jennifer Lynch hand out business cards at the war memorial?

I'm amazed at how Canadians have reacted to the news that the corrupt, abusive Canadian Human Rights Commission has elbowed its way into the official Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. I've received more e-mails copied to me than for any other matter about which I've encouraged people to e-mail their MPs.

In my blog post earlier today, I keyed off of the fact that the CHRC is now Canada's largest source of neo-Nazi bigotry, in the form of literally hundreds of online publications made by CHRC staff, in the guise of neo-Nazis. For a while this summer on my blog, I highlighted some of the most offensive of these, in a series I called "CHRC bigoted comment of the day". You can read a few of them in my archives.

I also thought of the perversity of the CHRC -- who are the 21st century equivalent of Nazi bookburners -- attending an event to remember those who gave their lives to defeat the Nazis.

And I spoke about the vulgarity of the CHRC -- which is currently under investigation for criminality by the RCMP -- foisting itself into such an event.

But I think I missed the key point -- the point that Jay Currie and Kathy Shaidle highlighted. Remembrance Day isn't a day for politics. It's about the most non-political, non-partisan day you could imagine. Yet Jennifer Lynch -- Joe Clark's former chief of staff who inexplicably managed to get herself appointed as the CHRC boss under a Stephen Harper government -- clearly saw the event as nothing more than a crass photo-op, a chance to burnish her tarnished credentials, using the memory of fallen soldiers as a prop.

I mean, really: does anyone else who is going to lay a wreath on Remembrance Day put out a press release about me! me! me! the way Lynch and the CHRC did? What a grotesque woman.

But it's not just the fact that Lynch issued a press release -- which is about as classy as going to a funeral and handing out business cards, saying "call me -- let's do lunch!". If you read Lynch's press release, it's not really about our fallen soldiers at all. It's about Lynch and her corrupt CHRC.

In her release, Lynch praises the United Nations -- the only organization whose corruption eclipses her own. Is that was Remembrance Day is about? A broken talk shop dominated by China, Iran and Russia? (We certainly know who Lynch holds up as a role model.)

But look at how her press release ends. Not with a prayer, but with a self-congratulatory note that the CHRC is turning 30 years old this year.

You disgraceful woman. It's. Not. About. You. 

But of course it is. Lynch doesn't give a damn about Remembrance Day -- a day about a bunch of dead white men -- other than as a stunt to distract from the CHRC's own discreditable conduct, the RCMP investigation, the Privacy Commissioner's investigation, and the tens of thousands of dollars she's spent on her global junkets going to five-star "human rights" conferences in such hell-holes as Rwanda, all while her own commission sinks further into disrepute.

Question: Will Lynch hand out business cards tomorrow? When she's at the ceremony, will she be "networking"?

Question: Will Lynch bring her own photographer (on the government dime, of course) to shoot pictures of her?

Question: Will Lynch lobby MPs and other officials she meets, pleading the CHRC's case while the Remembrance Day ceremony is underway?

Question: How does the Veterans Affairs Minister, Greg Thompson, feel about Lynch showboating this way?

And, sorry, sloughing the matter off onto the local Legion just doesn't cut it. It's the Minister's job to defend veterans, and to protect the political neutrality of Remembrance Day. Will Thompson call Lynch Tuesday morning and tell her to stay away? Or will he let her turn him -- and Canada's hundreds of thousands of war dead -- into just another step in the ladder of her political career?

Why not e-mail him to ask?

P.S. Here's a radio interview I did on the subject tonight, with The World Tonight's Rob Breakenridge. Lynch's disgrace is in the second half.