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A message to Americans There are many reasons why I am thankful that I am Canadian. One of those reasons, I will admit, is that I never had to suffer the embarrassment of having Bill Clinton lead my country. I have been interested in US politics for a number of years and I cringed for my American friends as scandal after scandal rocked the Clinton White House. I waited breathlessly after the 2000 election when the Presidency was literally hanging by a chad - hoping against hope that common sense would prevail, and that honour would finally be restored to...

Klein letter supports U.S. action against IraqCanadian PressUpdated: Fri. Mar. 21 2003 3:56 PM ETCALGARY — Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has put his support for the U.S. war on Iraq in writing - sending a letter to the American ambassador to Canada praising President George W. Bush for "leadership in the war on terrorism and tyranny." "The president and your nation have exemplified leadership," Klein said in a letter sent Thursday to Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada. "As Americans put their lives on the line to preserve freedom and security, we feel that friendship more strongly than ever."...

PM turns hawkish on Iraq war Chrétien issues stern warning; U.S., Britain push to authorize war Prime Minister Jean Chrétien took his most hawkish stance on Iraq to date yesterday, warning that Saddam Hussein has only weeks to disarm, while at the United Nations, the U.S. and Britain pushed closer to war with a draft Security Council resolution that would authorize conflict by mid-March. Mr. Chrétien blasted the NDP for "sing-song" anti-war rhetoric, while continuing to hold open his options on whether Canada would back a U.S.-led war on Iraq. But the prime minister's remarks appear to echo the two-to-three-week...

Has Prime Minister Jean Chrétien finally taken a definitive stand on the Iraq file? On Tuesday, under questioning in the House of Commons from Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Mr. Chrétien insisted Canada would not join the U.S.-led "coalition of the willing" should the United States fail to win additional Security Council backing for war. "We have not been asked and we do not intend to participate in a group of the willing," Mr. Chrétien said. "The policy of the government is very clear. If there has to be military activity in Iraq, we want it to be approved by...

Prime Minister Jean Chretien's decision to ratify the Kyoto accord was based on a "gut feeling," not a detailed knowledge of the international treaty, Environment Minister David Anderson said yesterday. "His critics, who frequently denounce this, fail to realize it is one of the signs of his genius that he doesn't want to know too much about certain things," Mr. Anderson said in a year-end interview with the Citizen. "He gets the right gut feeling. And he's got the antenna, which very few people have, the political antenna. He's right on this." Mr. Chretien signed the ratification papers of the...

Internal Divisions Shake Canada Gov't.The Associated Press, Fri 6 Dec 2002 TORONTO (AP) — Canada's prime minister narrowly escaped a Parliament vote that could have forced a snap election, and the close call has highlighted how much his power has eroded since announcing his retirement. The legislative wrangling Thursday in the House of Commons, where the Liberals hold 169 of the 301 seats, showed how badly the party caucus has divided since Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced in August he would step down in February 2004. With former finance minister Paul Martin the front-runner to succeed Chretien as party leader...

Jean Chrétien, the Prime Minister, wants us all to know that we should not concern ourselves with the sky-high cost of his government's gun registry. "Yes, there were cost overruns," Mr. Chrétien said on Wednesday. "It was more than we expected, but the system is in place and it's a good system, and it's very good for Canadian citizens." The cost of that "very good" system, as we now know courtesy of this week's Auditor-General's report, will soon reach $1-billion. That is, to say the least, a far cry from the $85-million maximum the government had promised when it began...

The chief spokesgal for Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien offered to resign today after being caught calling President Bush a "moron," but Chretien would not accept the resignation. Fitting reaction for a country in which polls show many citizens blame the U.S. for being attacked on 9/11. She's French and Canadian A reporter overheard Canuck peacenik Francoise DuCros at the NATO summit meeting in Prague calling President Bush a "moron" because she didn't like his policy on Iraq. DuCros claimed she didn't remember making the insult but said she used the term often. "If I made comments in the context...

Canada: Base for Terrorists By Stephen Brown FrontPageMagazine.com | November 19, 2002 Documents recently released by CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service), Canada's CIA, have confirmed that, for more than a decade, Canada has served as a financial and logistical base for Hezbollah’s operations in the Middle East. Hezbollah is the Lebanon-based terrorist organization responsible for myriad massacres, including the attack on the US embassy in Beirut in the early '80s that killed 240 US Marines. These documents came to light after they were sent to North Carolina for use in a cigarette-smuggling case there involving Hezbollah supporters. Once again,...

What David Hasselhoff is to Germans, I am the opposite to Canadians. OK, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. But in the last week, yours truly has become one of the most reviled Americans north of the 49th Parallel. It's all because of a cover story for the current issue of National Review in which I argue for the strategic bombing of Canada. Let me recap. Five decades ago, historian Frank Underhill wrote that the Canadian is "the first anti-American, the model anti-American, the archetypal anti-American, the ideal anti-American as he exists in the mind of G-d." It's a rather...

<p>CALLER: Hello. I have a question for Mr. Jennings. I'd like to ask him what his reaction is to the prime minister of Canada's remark today that we brought these attacks on ourselves in America.</p> <p>JENNINGS: I don't believe the prime minister of Canada would have said that.</p>

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has ended months of furious speculation and a fierce leadership struggle with his former finance minister in one fell swoop by announcing he will retire as Liberal party leader in February, 2004. "I will not run again," Jean Chrétien said in a speech following a meeting of the party's national caucus in Saguenay, Que. "I will fulfill my mandate and I will commit my life up until February, 2004." Mr. Chrétien's announcement will likely mend some of the deep wounds in the party caused by the intense and public leadership struggle between himself and his former...

In the spirit of the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in I've put together a list Jean Chretien's enemies. If you have some names I missed and/or would like to add your own name, send me an email. Here's the link: http://ca.geocities.com/ipberg

Martin dropped from cabinet Last Updated Sun, 02 Jun 2002 17:39:15 OTTAWA - Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is expected to kick Finance Minister Paul Martin out of his cabinet Sunday in the second shuffle in a week. This one is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. eastern time at Rideau Hall. The swearing-in ceremony was announced after the longstanding rivalry between Chrétien and Martin became a bitter rift three days ago. On Friday, Martin hinted he may leave his post, shortly after Chrétien said he may get rid of cabinet ministers who continue with unofficial leadership campaigns. Chrétien may now be beating...

Martin considers quitting 'I obviously have to reflect on my options': Finance Minister balks as Chrétien orders him to cease pursuit of leadership Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief and Michael Friscolanti National Post Glenn Lowson, National Post TORONTO - In a move that could send the governing Liberals into crisis and affect the Canadian economy, Paul Martin said last night he is reconsidering his future within the government. The Finance Minister's surprise announcement came after supporters of Jean Chrétien accused him of being "a destabilizing force" and the Prime Minister ordered him to stop all leadership campaigning. "I must say...

Chrétien says not having a priest at Sept. 11 memorial is his 'best decision': 'Rant' to caucus claimed OTTAWA - Jean Chrétien told Liberal MPs and Senators yesterday that the "best decision" he made after Sept. 11 was not to have a priest speak at the memorial service on Parliament Hill for the victims of the terrorist attacks. Insiders say the Prime Minister spoke for almost 10 minutes at the weekly national caucus meeting about the dangers of mixing religion and politics and about the Catholic Church. "It was a rant," one MP said. Dan McTeague, a Liberal MP from...