If You're Still Calling it "The Arab Spring" (Sans Scare Quotes) No Way You'll Understand Its "Implications"

Some like-minded Canadians gather for a mid-summer schmoozefest:

This week, check out the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs' annual summer conference. This year's theme, The Arab Spring: Implications and Opportunities For Canada, will bring a number of journalists, activists, academics, and diplomats to speak at the event on Lake Couchiching in Ontario.

Opportunities? Aside from the "opportunity" to get on board with all the sharia and Zionhass, what other "opportunity" could there possibly be?

Update: Sounds like an "opportunity" for useful idiocy to moi:

Fast-moving events in the Middle East and North Africa present Canada with a series of challenges and opportunities. Canada needs to respond in ways that reflect Canadian interests, but how we define those is a function of a thoughtful understanding of events in the region – which means looking beyond a Western lens.

Couchiching’s 2012 summer conference will challenge Western assumptions, provide context and understanding of the region’s complexities, and of the uprisings, their meaning, and their future. Most particularly, it will explore what they mean for Canada. What is it that captured the imagination of the Arab world and the world at large, and that continues to enthral and “frighten” some? How do these create particular challenges and opportunities for Canada in terms of its foreign policy, its economic potential, its refugees and diasporas, and its military obligations?

Update: From the president of the CIPA's bio:

Rima Berns-McGown...is an adjunct professor of diaspora studies with the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto, where she focuses on the creation of socially just diverse societies.

Which tells you pretty much all you need to know about the outfit (slogan: "a civil place to disagree") she helms.