Canada shrugs off U.S. warnings to Canadian politicians

The U.S. has called for candidates in Canada's upcoming election not to bash the U.S. government. The U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins lamented over Canadians " relentless and incessant" criticism of his country.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/wl_canada_nm/canada_politics_usa_col


Here we go again. Our country sticking into something they don't belong in.


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Oh Canada. I am so sorry for how arrogant our government can be!


John

The thing is, by stepping in, they guarantee we'll take it out on our conservatives :D

You'd think they'd pick an ambassador who knew that, wouldn't you ;-)

hate mean. Is what nefarious types do to provoke a change of action in people - they accuse or get some vessle to accuse people of being exactly what they hate most in the world - so people will instinctively overeact and do the opposite of the behaviour that seemingly "was called to attention".

Blatant interferance. Kyoto is being ignored by the USA. USA was threatening organizers of the Kyoto meeting. And USA has ignored the rulings on NAFTA that they don't like - and by doing so - go against the letter & spirit of the trade agreement. Softwood has been an issue ever since a perhaps 100,000 were put out of jobs because of Bush WH policy. One hundred thousand (or perhaps thousands) is a lot of jobs in the USA (in fact Bush brags on job creation in the hundreds of thousands). It means very much more to us.

We signed a deal. Nobody is kicking big oil out of Alberta. Why the hell wouldn't the PM have been screaming about it for the last few years? Both PMs have been. Then - just as the election approaches - US agrees to deal on softwood. But that deal may not actually go through.

And they send us these embassadors who are ignorant enough to make the best monkeys.

Piss off. Go ruin your own country Ambassador.

The man from the Wall Street Journal (his first name is John,I can't remember his last name) was on CTV Newsnet this morning, and according to him, U.S.A Ambassador Wilkins interjected himself into the Canadian election to complain about P.M. Martin mainly because Martin appeared with Pres. Clinton at the Montreal Summit....It seems this really ticked off little Georgie Bush....The fact that Martin kind of scolded Bush about keeping up his end of the NAFTA bargain (re softwood lumber) last time they met, didn't sit too well with him either....
P.S....For those of you who don't know, Canada has a dispute with the U.S.A with regards to the tarrifs the U.S.A has imposed on softwood lumber and refuses to take them off, even though there have been several judgments made in Canada's favour by the dispute panel....