Posted on 12/09/2005 12:04:23 PM PST by fanfan
The White House has officially complained about Prime Minister Paul Martin's comments this week at the climate change conference in Montreal.
Paul Martin's made his comments this week at the climate change conference in Montreal.
Jim Connaughton, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, has told Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna that Martin's comments are the worst slight against President George W. Bush since Germany's Gerhard Schroeder suggested Bush's stance against the Kyoto Protocol was responsible for hurricane Katrina.
"My understanding is that Mr. Connaughton made very clear his unhappiness over Mr. Martin's comments and particularly singling out the United States," a State Department official said, the Canadian Press reported.
"There is such a thing as a global conscience," Martin said Wednesday at the UN Conference on Climate Change.
"Now is the time to listen to it. Now's the time to join with others in our global community. Now is the time for resolve, for commitment and leadership and, above all, now is the time for action. Because only by coming together can we make real and lasting progress."
In October, outgoing chancellor Schroeder said: "I can think of a recent disaster that shows what happens when a country neglects its duties of state towards its people ....
"My post as chancellor, which I still hold, does not allow me to name that country, but you all know that I am talking about America."
Later today, Martin will be meeting with former U.S. president Bill Clinton at the conference.
Bernard Etzinger, a Canadian embassy spokesman in Washington, told Canadian Press that McKenna asked Connaughton for the meeting as part of their regular encounters.
"We asked for the meeting to talk about the (climate-change) proposals and how the U.S. was responding," Etzinger said.
CBC News correspondent Neil Macdonald said he has been told that the Americans are watching the election campaign, and if there is too much anti-U.S. rhetoric, that it would an impair progress on sensitive political issues between the countries.
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Later today, Martin will be meeting with former U.S. president Bill Clinton at the conference.
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Is this any surprise? Hardly.
I swear I think this guy travels the globe to undermine the USA. Didnt he hit the European capitals and meet with most of their leaders shortly after President Bush took office? One can only imagine what was said in those meetings.
Irrelevant, meet irrelevant. "Nice to meet you!"
Maybe I'm missing it ... but what exactly did PM Paul Martin say that has everyones knickers in a knot?
bill clinton is an irrelevant man who needs to feel important. by speaking with foreign leaders, it must make him feel good when reality it means absolutely nothing. poor, insecure, pathetic man.
How do these intellectual midgets manage to get themselves elected to high office? What does it say about Democracy if this is the caliber of leadership that the people choose for themselves?
Since we're talking about Canada, here is Steyn's take on the subject...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536327/posts
Thanks.
With the upcoming election, we'll see if the Canucks have grown a pair since the last election.
Just amazing stuff. Used to be, people would accuse each other of witchcraft, if a crop withered, and now, hundreds of years later, people are still this stupid. Unbelieveable. The sun is very hot- it has been known to warm things. Man oh man.
Where is this Connaughton person from? That is not a real common name. I have cousins with that name, so would like to know. This could be a second cousin.
Didnt one of the Kennedy "Royals " say basically the same thing? I thought Martin was on his way out the door, I guess he is just taking a cheap shot on the way out
Also I read somewhere that although we didnt sign up for Kyoto we had a better record last year than Canada.
US/Canada relations back to the deep freeze.
They are the only ones with enough shameless mendacity to lie to everyone, all the time. They lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend that their lies might actually do damage (see Democratic Leadership; Iraq). ;)
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