Canada gets a slice of Iraq business pie.

[Cascadian]

I honestly wonder what deal Prime Minister Martin of Canada did with the So-called President of ours to get business contracts in Iraq?

You would think that they have become such buddies now. But I wonder exactly what was said at the breakfast? Bush is not one to compromise so easily. What deal did he make I wonder?

Anybody get any insights to this?

John

[Minstrel Boy]

1. I think it was an easy concession to make, to signal

Bush isn't holding Martin responsible for Chretien's having kept Canada out of the war. (And I don't think we should take part even now. Divvying up the spoils of an illegitimate war is a criminal venture.)

What will be interesting to see, is how Martin's cozying up to Bush is received by most Canadians. We hate to see our PM as a lackey. And we hate Bush.

[Ekova]

2. Yeah, he needs to be careful.

He's about as center/right as we allow a liberal to be here. Junior will like him more because he is certainly big business.

On another note: anyone ever hear of a book called Corruption in Canada? A friend of mine has a copy somewhere - he read it about 10 years ago and for the last decade has been telling myself and anyone that dares broach the subject that Paul Martin would be the PM some day. Martin has been in the mix for years and apparently C in C says definitively that Paul M would take it.

Personally, I'm uncomfortable that he is interested in Iraq contracts and not in calling an election NOW. He's paid only brief lip service to it so far and seriously, since when does Canada just appoint a new Prime Minister? The Kim Campbell incident is different because the election was set and that prick Mulroney tapped her on the shoulder and told her she was the captain of the sinking ship.

Concerned citizens of the U.S. would do well to look up north of 49 once in a while, things are going to get interesting here over the next year.

Note: not sure if my tangent will force a mod to move this response...if so, all apologies.