Founded in 2003, the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) is a non-partisan, non-denominational membership organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of democratic values and the elimination of terrorism, worldwide. CCD will influence the Canadian political process through information, education, advocacy and service.
Many Canadians are troubled by our government’s foreign policy. Canada’s democratic way of life and multicultural society are models for the world and the basis of our moral authority. Despite this, our foreign policy consistently fails to stand behind sister democracies with shared values, including the United States, Israel, India and others who are under attack on the front lines of global terrorism.
At CCD, we believe that our foreign policy should reflect Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that we should support beleaguered allies who share those Canadian values. Instead, many in our government have made it their career to condemn and criticize the United States and Israel, while being apologists for terrorists who celebrate the killing and maiming of men, women, and children. The validation that our government has given to tyrants and terrorists makes it easier for them to spill the blood of innocents around the world. Increasingly, that innocent blood is on Canadian hands.
Canada’s foreign policy has failed many of our democratic allies, including India, the United States, Israel, and Turkey. As well, our foreign policy has helped crush the democratic dreams of people suffering under tyrannies in Zimbabwe, Iran, Lebanon, and the Sudan,
Winston Churchill said that an appeaser is someone who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. In 1938, the British peace movement and the media overwhelmingly supported Neville Chamberlain when he promoted a "peace process" with Adolf Hitler, and cheered wildly when he returned from Munich with "peace in our time". Six years later, 45 million people lay dead and Europe was in ruins. Appeasement is no basis for foreign policy.