Posted on 11/30/2004 8:07:22 AM PST by MikeEdwards
And it looks good on them. During the U.S. president’s official visit to Canada on November 30 and December 1, the White House rejected an invitation for Bush to address a joint session of the House of Commons and the Senate. According to sources, the Parliamentary appearance was declined to avoid booing which was expected from some of the “Honourable” Members.
Bush will of course meet with Prime Minister Martin and, according to protocol, will meet with Stephen Harper as leader of the Official Opposition. But NDP leader Jack Layton and Bloq Quebecois leader, Gilles Duceppe will not have the opportunity to meet with the American president.
While Paul Martin was in Africa last week trumping one world government or whatever he was doing, he told the media that he wasn’t worried about the protests that would be awaiting George Bush’s arrival in Ottawa. According to Martin, the U.S. president is an experienced politician who can handle protests.
Even taking into account that the hatred of George Bush results in much greater protests than the three or four losers who stand on Parliament Hill to protest the one or two social programs that Martin hasn’t thrown enough money at, Martin is probably right. Now that we have established that Bush is not afraid of protests, the declining of the invitation to address Parliament must have been taken for another reason. . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Screw the Canadians!
A definite snub to the plaid-wearing Frenchmen north of the border!
Hopefully, some of W's good karma rubs off on our brash young Conservative.
Yea the decline of the invitation must have been for another reason...
He was laughing too hard at the silliness of all you canucks trying to gather for a protest!
I'd love to see conservatism take hold in Canada the way it has in America.
Won't hold my breath waiting though.
We can just ship the Canadian conservatives down here and trade them for our liberals!
Good for him. They don't deserve for him to give them one minute of time...except, of course, Stephen Harper and the conservatives. I hope President Bush and Mr. Harper really connect. I suspect they will.
I'm glad the President will not be addressing Parliament, I don't think I could take being embarrassed by our 'leaders' yet again.
Great idea. I'm first in line...
I love this about Bush. There is always a consequence for people, leaders, governments that play dirty. Bush just won't deal with you. That's a great quality. None of the wishy washy "oh please like me no matter what" crap we saw in the Clinton administration.
Heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee...
Bush is telling Canada's Lefties to "SUV IT!" BWAHAHAHAHAHA
And, I certainly hope that we have the horses in place to photograph the usuals and identify them with some sort of 'photo recognition software. These are they guys that I really want to keep off my airplane!
Who, in their right mind, would want to meet with people who say stuff like this? -- "Carolyn Parrish: Canadian - 'Damn Americans … I hate those bastards.'”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16095
FrontPage magazine.com :: Carolyn Parrish: Canadian Leftist Mouthpiece by Stephen Brown
bttt
Screw the Canadians!
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Not in this lifetime...
It'd be a cool place to dump our nuclear waste
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