[adorno]

I'm not too sure about the caption on that picture.

But, from my viewpoint, during the last 6 years and probably more, there has not been a better ally and friend to the U.S. than Australia. Canada might come in somewhere in the first ten.

[GMMAC]

Taking nothing away from our marvelous mutual friend & ally Australia but, Harper is accurately referencing the much bigger picture of the past two centuries & is quite plainly correct.

To me, the factor you're overlooking and which isn't present to anywhere near the same extent in either of our nations' relationships with Australia are the on-going blood ties represented by the countless families with branches on both sides of the border.

[xmission]

BIG Australian thumbs up deserved.

[styky]

The reason you are left with that impression is that the Liberal party leadership for the past 13 years previous to this current government had a dislike for everything American.

I don't think that you will get this view anywhere in Canada but Toronto. Toronto's problem now is that they have treated the western provinces with the same disrespect that they used on the US. With Toronto's economy on the skids they are now slapping on the syrup with the "I didn't really mean that" because they want what we can provide them.

When you hear that Canadians don't like something in the news rest assured that it really means that Toronto has it's panties in a knot about something and the rest of the country don't agree in the least.