Bushy Bully

Bush tried to bully Canadian officials on missile defence during his visit last month by linking Canada's participation to future protection from the U.S., the Washington Post reported Sunday. The newspaper quoted a Canadian official who was in the room as saying Bush waved off their attempts to explain how contentious the issue is for Prime Minister Paul Martin's minority government. "(Bush) leaned across the table and said: 'I'm not taking this position, but some future president is going to say, Why are we paying to defend Canada?' "

Paul Cellucci, America's ambassador to Canada, said earlier this month that the U.S. is optimistic Canada will sign on to the missile defence plan before the end of March.

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If Canada signs that we may as well all move to a rock in international waters because we'll be in debt, and in America's pocket forever after that. Oh, yeah... and the entire planet will hate us too. The only time we'll really have to worry about shit happening to us on an American scale (unless the threat comes from the Americans) is IF we sided with them on shit like this.