Gaffes galore on Schwarzenegger tour

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It was a great trifecta of gaffes.

First there was the geography slip-up by the defence minister; then the action-hero-turned-governor gets befuddled by which war Canada was waging; and finally the opposition leader's blunder that had a famous Microsoft billionaire running the U.S. military.
The events were, surprisingly, all somewhat intertwined.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay kicked off the series of verbal faux pas this week when he surprised an audience Tuesday by saying California and British Columbia shared a border.

MacKay's geography goof came in the presence of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who didn't immediately react but later politely noted that Oregon and Washington sit between B.C. and California.

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