FOREIGN MINISTER MACKAY: (Via interpreter) Thank you very much. Welcome everyone.
I'm very pleased to be here with my dear colleagues, Secretary Espinosa and Secretary Rice, and our other colleagues here in Ottawa today on this balmy Ottawa afternoon.
I think it's fitting that, for the first time, the three of us would meet under the same roof. It's in the context of the SPP, the Security and Prosperity Partnership. It's all about cooperation amongst our neighbors and that's what we have sought to do today is to further that cooperation.
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"The officials gave little details of what was discussed during Friday's talks, which critics decried as being too secretive and possibly harmful to Canada's sovereignty.<br />
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Ottawa had earlier issued a press release saying the discussion would not move Canada closer to becoming another U.S. state."<br />
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Taken from: <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070222/rice_mackay_070223/20070223?hub=CTVNewsAt11">http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070222/rice_mackay_070223/20070223?hub=CTVNewsAt11</a><br />
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I thought this was funny. <br />
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"Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff spoke to reporters immediately after the foreign ministers.<br />
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But in an odd twist, North America's top security officials were interrupted by a brief security breach, when two protesters managed to storm the stage."<br />
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Minister Stockwell Day, you and Minister Peter MacKay are a traitors to Canada!