Canada Opposition Chief Rebuffs Pro-US Label

I fucking Hate S.Harper. Nuff said.

Liberal tolerance in action,.....ooops, your slip is showing.

Liberals are very tolerant as long as you don't disagree with

them.

"Nuff Said",...gee, you must be from "the hood".

Stephen Harper and Alliance foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day took advantage of the situation, writing a letter to the Wall Street Journal saying that Ottawa should have joined in the U.S.-led war.

The Liberals’ woes weren’t limited to the House of Commons. The Canadian business community complained that Canada’s position on Iraq kept Canadian companies from getting contracts in reconstruction.

But, the reality is, all major contracts went to companies in the U.S. Two of the U.S.’s staunchest allies, Britain and Australia, were also kept out of the main reconstruction contracts. France, Germany and Russia, who were opposed to the Iraq war, also spoke out about the U.S. monopoly on contracts.

American consumers started campaigns to boycott products from Canada and other countries that didn’t participate in the war. There were reports of technology companies refusing to take orders from Canadian companies and a call to avoid Canadian products such as beer, cheese and hot dogs.

Although by February 2003 United Nations inspectors had found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and still haven't, the United States continued to push for an end to Saddam Hussein’s regime and lobbied other nations to join in that effort. Jean Chrétien declined to join, saying Canada would not participate in a war against Iraq without UN approval. The Liberal government took heat from the Opposition for its position.


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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

How could anyone possibly forget and yet Harper still has supporters. He flipped backwards when he realized the Canadians didn't want to go to war against Iraq. The man dosen't know Canadians and always attempts to cross the water when he believes that he do's. He thought Canadians wanted an election once again. Hopefully some voters will bother to vote and tell him differently.

Stephen Harper is the liar and cheat (cons still owe Orchard some $70,000) that Canadians are going to replace the hated lying, stealing libs??? He is in fact on record as saying that he would have sent Canadian troops to Iraq, which is an indication that he doesn't have the brains enough to be trusted with the position of PM considering all that we know about Bush's lies to go in there, nevermind the integrity to make a decision based on anything more than whether we will be able to get contracts to rebuild a decimated Iraq. This is an unprincipled person.

Seems to me that Canadians pretty much deserve whatever they get for voting in the same two parties. The real kicker is that they are somehow surprised when they get the same results time and time again. I can only beg Canadians to abandon both of these parties, that is the real opposition vote.

So did Martin support troops in Iraq. And Chretien was ready to go too until he read the polls in QC. Charest was up for re-election, and Quebecers haven't supported going to any war at anytime since confederation. So he pulled the ole...well whadever da UN does, dat will become our foreign policy. He did this knowing full well France had already said they would veto any motion. Russians and Germans were also opposed as they were afraid of upsetting "stability" in Saddam's Iraq. This is code for, we want to keep milking the oil for food scam for a while. Business is good.

btw: we did have a handful of troops over there on assignment with a US division. Harper called Martin on this during the last debate, and he just blathered something. Martin's first defence minister (Pratt?) also supported going into Iraq. Reg Alcock attended a rally at the MB leg in favour of going to war as well. Funny only Harper's record is mentioned?

As for the "other" parties". Yes NDP opposes all war ever. Not a big mystery what their position was on Iraq. Appease Saddam, pass more resolutions. As long as there is "stability" they are happy. They supported the Soviet Empire throughout the cold war. Of course these people never realize that absence of conflict does not necessarily mean the presence of justice. Just ask the Kurds.