Susan Delcourt has provided 10 good reasons why
Canada’s U.N. bid failed, and the
Irish Times comes up with an 11th that nobody else seems to have thought of--Mexico: specifically ,
the 2009 decision to impose a visa requirement on Mexican visitors. This move was allegedly taken to stem the tide of illegal refugees, but served mainly to
piss of middle-class tourists from that country, send the already
falling number of Mexican visitors to Canada falling further and, now, apparently, incur Mexico's wrath at the United Nations.
Apologists for the government's screw-up on the U.N. bid have spun this as a principled stand against the Muslim hordes, or as a principled stand against the job-killing Kyoto accord. No word from them yet on how screwing over Mexican tourists fits into this grand narrative.