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Woodrow Wilson Awards Dinner

Posted on Sunday, October 08 at 13:10 by jensonj
Certainly flying down to Cancun with the Prime Minister for the SPP meetings last March was one of them. On the way back, Prime Minister Harper graciously asked me to join him for dinner and we spent about two hours getting to know one another. We discussed really important issues: the NATO mission in Afghanistan, softwood lumber, passports, economics and politics. We shared family stories. It was a great conversation. It was a substantive and meaningful, yet very cordial conversation. And I left that meeting thinking, "That's the most focused individual I've ever spoken with!" http://canada.usembassy.gov/content/content.asp?section=embconsul&document=wilkins_100506

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  1. by jensonj
    Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:49 pm
    >>"We talked for a long while in his Parliament Hill office and I recall him saying a number of times: "When I'm Prime Minister this will happen or we'll do it like this."

    And quite frankly at that time, few were predicting he'd be Prime Minister in less than six months.

    I remember thinking "That's a man of conviction." <<

    How much influence did the Bush Administration have on the election of PM Harper?

    Did Canadians elect a Prime Minister or did Canada have a American influenced / directed Regime change?

    U.S. Government Election interference? Maybe? Maybe not?

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  2. by Innes
    Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:32 pm
    Back when Harper was seeking the leadership of the Canadian Alliance he was interviewed by a reporter from the Alberta Report and a copy of the transcript was posted on the internet. At that time he said in response to a question: "If I get a mandate, I'll use the full authority of the office to ensure things go the way I intend them to go." This to me at the time seemed to be the words of a dictator. Nothing has happened since that time to change my opinion.

  3. by avatar whelan costen
    Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:35 am
    Anyone else see this is strange? Why would Calgary be hosting awards named for a President of the U.S.? Why would a Canadian PM be receving this award?

    "Woodrow Wilson

    Like Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the President," he said, "seems to be expected ... to look out for the general interests of the country." He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." "



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