Posted on 02/27/2003 9:58:07 AM PST by cybrlovr
MP apologizes for calling Americans 'bastards' Last Updated Thu, 27 Feb 2003 7:07:12 OTTAWA - A Liberal MP has apologized for saying about Americans: "I hate those bastards."
MP Carolyn Parrish was speaking to reporters about Canada's diplomatic initiative on Iraq. At the end of her comments, after most of the cameras were turned off, Parrish said, "Damn Americans … I hate those bastards."
Carolyn Parrish
CBC reporter Susan Lunn, who heard Parrish make the comment, said the MP then laughed as she was walking away.
In a written statement issued Wednesday afternoon, Parrish says she made the comments in the heat of the moment in a private conversation. She said they do not reflect her opinion of the American people.
"My comments do not reflect my personal opinion of the American people and they certainly do not reflect the views of the government of Canada," she said in her written statement.
Late last year, the prime minister's communications director, Françoise Ducros, resigned after calling U.S. President George W. Bush "a moron" during a conversation with a reporter in Prague.
Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper said Parrish's comments won't make relations between the two countries any better.
"They don't do Canadians any good – Canadians who are trying to cross the border for business, Canadians who are trying to sell lumber or agricultural products or manufactured goods to the United States," said Harper.
Deputy Prime Minister John Manley said MPs should know better.
"I've tried to encourage members of the House and Senate to recognize they are public figures and they should exercise a certain amount of discretion in what they say," he said.
The Prime Minister's Office said that Parrish does not speak for the government of Canada.
Written by CBC News Online staff
and this:
While we're at it, let's throw in coastal Washington and Oregon, as well as northern California. It's still a great deal for us.
I would give them Hollyweird and L.A. as well, but since the ownership of these areas is in dispute between the US and Mexico, it's really not my place to give them away.
"My comments do not reflect my personal opinion of the American people" Parish explained later!!
Hey, that makes it ok!! No problem, Ms. Parrish. We believe you didn't think what you said about us!!
Gotta love the rabid lefties in the Canadian government. First, President Bush is a 'moron'. Now ALL Americans are 'bastards' whom Ms Parrish can summarily 'hate'. How typical of the 'sensitive' and 'tolorant' left.
I think the Latin term for the disease is Liberismious Democratous. More commonly refered to as Liberalsm. Liberals deal in the emotion plane while thinking people deal in the reality plane. In the emotion plane whatever you say and/or do is right therefore you can say anything. See Clinton, Dashole, et. al. for proof.
They're just bitter cuz they could have had English culture, French cuisine and American technology.
They ended up with English cuisine, French technology and American culture.
Parrish looks like a cross between a prune and a troll wearing too much makup.
KUDOS to 17 year old Rebecca Willems, dual citizen of the US and Canada, for taking on the meaningless prostlytizing of the Canadian government! I hope you become Canadian PM someday!
culture war, are going to have a wrenching time adjusting to the
new world conservatives are creating. It serves them right.
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