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Gale Asper, the late media mogul Izzy Asper's daughter, has been in the news recently trying to raise funds for her father's dream The Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The estimated cost of building the museum is $311 million dollars as part of a private-public partnership. It is becoming clear that the only way this museum will ever open is if the Federal government commits millions more to its construction and operation.

Izzy Asper saw the museum as an international icon to represent Canada on the world stage. For his family, it's a way to maintain his legacy at the taxpayer's expense.

The museum's website has an on-line video advertisement where we are told that the museum will be a "symbol for all Canadians," and a chance to "change the world." Backed by an uplifting synth score and a parade of talking heads espousing the benefits of the project, the video tells us "to reach for the stars."

The proposed museum will be built at the Forks. If all goes to plan, the building will be a giant swirling glass pyramid, with a glowing "tower of hope" reaching to the sky with tremendous phallic splendour - like any good international icon should. The Provencher Bridge will have nothing on this future crystal palace of human tragedy. According to the advertisement the museum will be a transformative experience, a beacon of hope and a great tourist attraction. Gale Asper was quoted in the Winnipeg Free Press recently claiming that the museum "could be the anchor tenant in the province to attract those tourists who are well-educated, pretty well off and who are happy to part with their disposable income on our wonderful and unique stores, restaurants, hotels and taxi cabs."

Just imagine. Hordes of rich white people can travel to Winnipeg and experience what it is like for the rest of society to suffer under the weight of their privilege, Then they can go out on the town, eat, drink and shop their guilt away. It will be kind of like a zoo of human suffering.

Tasteless? I agree.

The time to build a museum of human rights is not now when the future of these very rights is in danger. Never before have the rights of humans been so threatened than at the present time. Governments and corporations are terrorizing people and their freedoms at an alarming rate and on a global scale. Our government and media have been complicit in the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, Afghans and Palestinians. George Bush Jr. has just legislated the end of Habeus Corpus, and destroyed the US Constitution with the signing of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The dictatorship is here. International icons are just a distraction from the real fact that human rights are almost dead.

I could only imagine what a Canadian Museum for Human Rights would look like influenced by the "progressive" minds of the National Post and the Harper government.

There would be a display showing George Bush Jr. as a freedom fighter and a display highlighting Canada's role in Afghanistan as a peacekeeping mission in defense of democracy.

As far as I am concerned, there should be no Canadian Museum of Human Rights built until a peaceful justice is served for all peoples and it can then be a place of celebration and not one of mourning.

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