Zimcanucks

inked in some way with the Zim Embassy in Ottawa. It works this way; Ottawa represents President Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) government. Toronto is dominated by a combination of MDC politicos and those who just don’t want to have anything to do with politics, including Zim-Expo.
Talking of politics, Ambassador Florence Chideya, and no doubt her boss President Mugabe, must be happy this week. Whereas they have been bashed by everybody, they got themselves a powerful ally in their claim that the West is to blame for Zimbabwe’s crisis.
The United Church of Canada, the largest national Protestant denomination here, this week came out blaming the West for Zimbabwe’s worsening economic and political crisis.
In a letter to Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, Peter MacKay, the church said Mugabe and his government must be held responsible for implementing policies that immediately put at risk the lives of millions of Zimbabweans, but the blame for Zimbabwe’s problems, and the responsibility to resolve them, must be shared.
In the letter, Gary Kenny, the United Church of Canada’s Program Coordinator for Southern Africa said Zimbabwe’s woes had their roots in the country’s debilitating colonial legacy, where ethnic groups were played off against one another by colonial authorities and patterns of corruption and the abuse of power were instilled.
Kenny said even in post-colonial Zimbabwe the West had continued to exploit the country through inequities in international trade rules, the unfair pricing of commodities on the international market, and other factors.
“We believe the international community, including Canada, can and must do more to support a peaceful resolution to the crisis, because Canada and other Western countries are part of the problem. The West is complicit in supporting these systems of domination that have constrained Zimbabwe’s sovereign political and economic development,” said Kenny.