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| Toronto, whose slogan is 'the good' |
As a radical left-wing student at the University of Toronto in the 1980s I had absolutely no interest in Maltese politics. Why bother about the little bit of violence on this little island when there was a global communist revoltion to plan? And obviously, the planning took place over sushi in the capitalist heartland.
Yet
after a few visits to Malta I began to take more of an interest. Returning to Toronto I started watching the Community TV channel which
alloted a weekly programme to ethnic communities, including the Maltese
one. What I saw on the TV screen as the blizzards bashed on my student room window was not what I had observed in Malta. What was supposed to be
the news was just a relay of the Socialist regime's propaganda spouting
out of Pellegrini's Xandir Malta.
There
and then I decided to do something about it. I wrote to Louis Galea,
who was then the PN's secretary general, and who I had never met. The first sentence read like this: "I am a marxist student and I share none
of your party's principles. But I believe that people have a
right to know the truth about Malta. If you think that I could do something to change
what is being transmitted here ..." Politically, it was a turning point
in my life.
Where
does Edward Scicluna fit into all this? Simple. He was the one who used
to appear on my battered student TV screen in Toronto in the 1980s. A fellow student at the University of Toronto, he
spent his spare time feeding the Maltese community in
Toronto that all was well back home.
Thank you, Edward. You made me see the light in more ways than one.
Thank you, Edward. You made me see the light in more ways than one.
4 comments:
Ouch.
As self-confessed radical Marxist, you are hardly in a position to throw stones at Edward Scicluna.
BTW, do you consider yourself a neo-conservative now?
I'm not too sure if I can understnd your reasoning or lack of it regarding the TV Community programs in Toronto in the 80's.
I used to participate in the program which Victor Formosa used to produce. We have NEVER mentioned politics in our program and the news was not that elaborate since then we had no access to the internet like we have today.
Lou, it looks like the only good programs are those which you organize. Cool it man before you'll be given a medal honoring you as a complainer.
Alfred Grech
@ Alfred Grech - oh sorry, the long battle, all the meetings I had with the Community station officials to redress the imbalance were just an illusion.
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