Canadian Vote Chance To End 'petty Rancour' With Bush Team

Others echo that theme; that the rancour is less a result of policy differences than of a perception of deliberate delay and duplicity by successive Liberal prime ministers. "More civility, more dignity, . . .. not what's occurred under Chrétien and Martin," said Joseph Jockel, director of Canadian Studies at St. Lawrence University in Rochester, N.Y. In the Bush administration, "there's no goodwill left towards Canada," he said. "The United States can easily accept a 'no' if it is handled differently," he added, noting that deep bitterness lingers in the Bush administration over the manner, not the substance, of the Liberal government's rejection of White House entreaties to participate in the Iraq war and continental missile defence. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051228/BILATERAL28/TPInternational/Americas

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