Kudos for China's stand on Bieber
The Order of Canada is the highest non-military honor my country can bestow on its citizens, and the Order's official constitution stipulates that non-Canadians are also eligible for honorary membership "for contributions to humanity at large".
Based on that criterion, nominations should be proffered to the person or persons at the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture who recently decreed that bubble gum crooner and punk poseur Justin Bieber will not be welcome in China until he cleans up his act.
On July 22, days before "the world's most famous Canadian" (that's totally bogus - we all know it's William Shatner) canceled his global tour, the New York Times quoted this response by the BMBC to a young fan's complaint that China wasn't one of the stops:
