No U.N. , Yes G-20

This stinks of the rich corporate world siding up with the best of the developing world and sidelining the poor in the world. What about the countries not in the G-20? We'll just disregard them? They are of no value? This is a great way to invest in good relations and arrest terrorism. Paul Martin is trying to be George Bush minus the army. What he doesn't get is that you can't be Bush without the army. What a tool. I guess this is Martin's way of putting a nice new face on Canada. This will be what separates him from Cretien and finally makes Canada Martin's investment play thing. ______________________________________ John Ibbitson From Friday's Globe and Mail With Thursday's landmark speech, Paul Martin tacitly acknowledged what Canada's foreign policy establishment has refused to accept for decades: that the United Nations is a failure, for which there is no solution. The Prime Minister's proposed alternative is a new international body, the G-20 summit of world leaders, representative of North and South, developed and developing, rich and poor: a working group unfettered by the UN's bureaucracy and its anachronistic Security Council.