[Alberta's Child]

A friend of mine with contacts in one of the major ministries in the Canadian government told me that the U.S. began treating Chretien as an irrelevant old fool almost from the moment George W. Bush was inaugurated.

I don't know if anyone else picked up on this, but when the Bush administration hosted that "Energy Summit" in Washington back in early 2001, it was Alberta premier Ralph Klein who was invited to represent Canada, not Jean Chretien.

[gcruse]

I don't know if anyone else picked up on this, but when the Bush administration hosted that "Energy Summit" in Washington back in early 2001, it was Alberta premier Ralph Klein who was invited to represent Canada, not Jean Chretien.

OMG!  That's outrageous.  LOL