Canada's Harper rebukes US over Arctic claims in first address

[donsu]

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/01/26/afx2481052.html


Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper blasted Washington's denial of Canada's Arctic sovereignty, reducing expectations that his new Conservative government would seek closer US ties.

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But in his first public address Thursday, Harper chided US Ambassador David Wilkins for lambasting his plans to bolster Canada's Arctic military presence.

'The United States defends its sovereignty. The Canadian government will defend our sovereignty,' Harper told reporters outside the House of Commons.

'I've been very clear in the campaign that we have significant plans for national defense and for defense of our sovereignty, including Arctic sovereignty,' he said.
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Canadian conservatives are not like bushmilhousegang's conservatives.

(everybody seems to have spine against the bushmilhousegang but our Dems in congress - could it be death treats?)

[XOKCowboy]

1. I heard a guy on Ed Schultz yesterday say...

something about how the "Average American" supports domestic spying and how the rest of the world supports US policy on Iraq. Ed about choked. The rest of the world see's this administration for what it is. They aren't exposed to Fox News every day and are able to think for themselves. Pitiful...