But her arrival served to remind Canadians of their irritation with the United States. In April, Rice canceled a visit to Canada as a diplomatic rebuke for its decision not to participate in the Bush administration's anti-missile defense system. The decision broke a long tradition of early visits to Canada by incoming secretaries of state.
The Toronto Star newspaper noted Monday that Rice visited 39 countries, traveled 167,366 miles and spent 357 hours in the air "before making the 90-minute hop to Ottawa."
Martin, though, has been persistent on the issue. "Friends live up to their agreements," he scolded when asked about the U.S. position in a news conference Monday. In a telephone conversation with President Bush on Oct. 14, Martin rejected the U.S. leader's request to negotiate the tariff issue, saying Canada "would not negotiate a win," according to Martin's office.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051030/1064574.asp
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Your opinions never mattered to us anyway.
Who care's what you think,
Their public 'officials' tell so many lies they wouldn't recognize the truth if it hit them on the head.
It all starts at the top and when you have an international criminal of the scope of George W. Bush there is no telling how far down the ladder the evil lurks.
I am afraid that the Neocons have infected Canada already as Canadians are too lazy to keep their own government from cow towing to the US.
Oh, but then Canada would beg us to let them back in so that they can sell us their lumber.
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"The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it." —George W. Bush, on Valerie Plame's identity leak.
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.
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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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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
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take oil, for instance. we have almost as much of it as saudi arabia. we'll gladly sell our oil to india and china, and leave americans in the cold while their domestic supply continues to run dry. besides, current provisions in NAFTA detail the fact that if canadian energy supplies dwindle, we would have to continue to supply the american market first. that doesn't sound like fair trade, does it?<br />
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either america will actually play by the rules it agrees to and imposes on others, or canada will take its ball to another playground.<br />
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