Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew is leaving politics to lead the Organization of American States, Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The trilingual Pettigrew, who speaks English, French and Spanish, could quit his post within weeks, said the report.
Headquartered in Washington, the OAS deals with development, rights and trade issues among 35 countries in the Americas.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/26/pettigrew-oas050426.html
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Dave Ruston
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Canada's Pettigrew Said Flattered by OAS Job Talk<br />
Full Story: <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1502&e=8&u=/nm/20050426/wl_canada_nm/canada_latam_oas_canada_col&sid=81587690">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1502&e=8&u=/nm/20050426/wl_canada_nm/canada_latam_oas_canada_col&sid=81587690</a> <p>---<br>These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
I also say good riddance. I haven't seen a minister as pro business as him since Mulroney.
These politcal flunkies of all stripes have the same attitude as child molesters.
They manipulate,hurt,control,dominate,lie,deceive,etc.
Just a thought.
Quebec will need representation in the OAS. Canada does, but Quebec needs it's own, and that will be Pierre. Canada finally joined the OAS in 1990. We were SECOND TO LAST TO JOIN, with Belize and Guyana being the very LAST to join in 1991. Canada has always had a history of delusional paranoia. And we don't want to admit we are located where we are geographically either. We are in true denial of who and where we are. The OAS is a group of 35 nations. THIRTY FIVE!!! It has a headquarters building in Washington D.C. but is in no way run by America. That is something manufactured in the paranoid minds of backward, regressive people. It is a group, or collective of 35 nations which make up, the AMERICAS (not the country U.S.A. - for the slower folks among us)...North America(Includes Canada for those here who didn't know), Central America, and South America. A huge chunk of terrain. NOT controlled by America as in the U.S.A., so place a bag over your faces and breath...deep..slow..okay then...proceeding on. That is something the paranoid within Canadian society states who are still living in ice caves slurping maple syrup, and huffing the national plant's vapors believe.
Pierre's sharp, and Quebec recognizes this. They need him, and their fledgling country will have to have solid business ties to the rest of the world it lives in. They aren't going to cut their own throats out of paranoia as we are doing. They are smart people. If only we...SIGH...nevermind. We instead of trying to unite Canada focused on hating America and American people and forgot all else that was happening, and here we are. Oh, well. Live and learn. Let's make the best of it. Now the only people that got any play with anyone out there in the big bad world are going it alone not wanting to be hampered by our dead, anti-everybody weight. Kind of hard to attend the ball, with a date on your arm spitting out vulgarities constantly! So we aren't Cinderella after all. We're more like the wicked step-sisters. And the Prince (Quebec) has decided for it's own welfare to leave us and go it alone.
Here is a list of the member countries of the Organization of American States:
All 35 INDEPENDENT NATIONS OF THE AMERICAS ARE MEMBER OF THE OAS!!! The current government of Cuba (Communist/socialist Canada's best friend and run by our hero Fidel)however has been excluded from participation since 1962. Upon foundation on May 5, 1948 there were 21 members:
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba (later excluded by popular vote of group members in 1962)
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
The later expansion of the OAS was mostly among the newly independent nations of the Caribbean. Members with later admission dates (sorted by date of admission):
Barbados (acceded in 1967)
Trinidad and Tobago (1967)
Jamaica (1969)
Grenada (1975)
Suriname (1977)
Dominica and Saint Lucia (1979)
Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1981)
Bahamas (1982)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (1984)
Canada (1990)
Belize and Guyana (1991)
The Organization's official languages are English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
So there you have it. Pierre's just doing his job for HIS country. He sold "us" out, but he wasn't really "us". So we should lighten up on him a bit maybe. And before we lose anymore of our country, maybe we should concentrate on the reperation of ties between the remaining Provinces. You know...like maybe, instead of spending all our time and energy obsessing over America (the U.S.A. "America") and spreading hate propaganda, maybe we should look out for ourselves. Look out for Canada. Look out for Canadians. UNITE Canada. Isn't THAT what being "for" Canada is supposed to be about?
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"they should hate us for our shoes, we should beat them with our money" - Anonymous Canadien
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
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Dave Ruston