Glad to see the PM has a little bit of tact.  He’s decided no to go to Washington to pickup the most trivial of awards – the World Park Leadership award.

Mr. Chr?tien was to attend an award ceremony in Washington where he was to be honoured for his government’s creation of 15 new national parks in Canada last year.

“He felt it was not appropriate, because of the circumstances, for a leader to go there to receive a personal-achievement award,” PMO spokeswoman Fr?d?rique Tsai told globeandmail.com.

Heritage Minister Sheila Copps will accept the World Park Leadership Award in Washington from the U.S. National Parks Conservation Association on his behalf on April 9.

The PM is so eager to become a world player, but he’s backing all the wrong horses for world influence.  I read he wants to be the next Secretary General of the UN.  Newsflash: the UN is dying and could be dead sooner rather than later.

Meanwhile, Canada’s military community weeps.

Checkout the We Support the USA page – you can fill in your name to send an email to Chretien.

The purpose of this website is to send a message to Prime Minister Chretien and his supporters that he is NOT speaking on behalf of the Canadian people whom he represents.  We may not be able to support the U.S. militarily, but we should support the US efforts in principle.  Failing to do so may seriously jeopardize the economic relationship between the U.S. and Canada.  In kind, our own safety and freedom could be compromised without the security provided by the U.S.

Yet another example of how Quebec is ruining this country.

There is a much more local appeasement going on in Canada, one that has gone on ever since the Plains of Abraham battle.  That is, the appeasement of Quebec.  This appeasement is even enshrined in our constitution – with the guarantee that no matter what its population, Quebec shall have 25% of all House of Commons seats.

I could go on, but it is clear that Quebec is a cancer that is killing this country.

In this sense, sitting out the war is not so much the policy of Canada as it is the policy of Quebec. Once again, the internal dynamics of Quebec politics is skewing the national agenda. In the Liberal Party backrooms, what’s good for the Party is good for Canada.

Canadians travelling to the US should get used to bad treatment, like tire slashing, as payback for their not supporting the Iraqi War.

He said Canadian citizens are paying the price for the “insolence” that has been displayed by Canadian politicians who have lashed out against the Americans for the position their government has taken in going to war against Iraq.

“This is very bad for Canada. The Liberals behave like children and we are going to pay for it. This is not a hockey game. This is a real game,” said the Conservative Senator.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too with the US.  You are either with them or against them. 

Canada made a bad choice.

The Great One makes more sense than most Canadians.  Since he lives in the US, he reaps more of the fruits of the USA.  If Canadians weren’t so blind, they’d realize they need the US more our economy than we do for as a whipping post.

“I live in the United States right now. I elected the president. I happen to think he’s a great leader and a wonderful president,” Gretzky told CTV’s Seamus O’Regan. “And if he believes that we need to be where we are right now, for the freedom of the world, I back him 100 per cent.”

Canadian Friends of America

Canadian Friends of America was started as an ad-hoc campaign against increasing anti-American sentiments in Canadian public debate.

It’s about time!  Go visit!

Our last decent PM, Mulroney, has some choice words for our national embarrassment, J. Crouton.

Brian Mulroney yesterday accused Jean Chr?tien of ‘’juvenile delinquency elevated to parliamentary proportions’’ in refusing to join the U.S.-led war against Iraq, and warned it will hurt Canada.

A few posts back, I posted how I longed for a real leader in Canada.  You know, one like GWB.

Of Jean Chretien she wrote: “He arrived. He shook our hands. When the person who introduced us mentioned that I was pregnant at the time, he barely acknowledged it. He asked if my husband liked hockey. He stood for pictures, said a few words, then left.”

Of her meeting later that same day with George Bush she wrote: “When George Bush spoke to us, he hugged me when he learned I had lost my husband. I thanked him for sending me a letter in condolence for my husband and also for sending a letter to my son congratulating him on his arrival. He looked stricken.

“You were pregnant at the time?” he asked.

“Yes,” I responded.

“He embraced me again and told me my son was hope for the future. I told him that since Sept. 11, I felt he had been protecting our interests. He told me he would protect me and I believed him.

“I will never forget that day or the compassion and sincerity I saw in his face.”