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Clinton criticism 'tempest in a teapot,' Cannon says, CTV.ca News Staff, Apr. 4 2010
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100404/cannon_QP_100404/20100404?hub=QPeriod
"Mrs. Clinton expressed not her government's position; she expressed her personal point of view … her personal opinion," Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told CTV's Question Period.
Stephen Harper, Lawrence Cannon, Stockwell Day, Vic Toews, and all you Con ideologues, here's a heads up. George W Bush's extreme right wing, ideology based Republicans lost the last election. Rationality and tolerance have been restored to the American government. The middle of the road, tolerant, rationally based Democrats won. That's right Obama is actually tolerant and basis their policies on the realities and actual needs.
To suggest that Hillary Clinton, a seasoned politician, who has spent that last year traveling around the world talking to and negotiating with all forms of governments regarding undoing the damage caused by the Bush administration and promoting co-operation, peace, friendly relations and an America that contributes to the well being of other countries as opposed to the in-your-face, belligerent, self interest, of neo-Con's, in a formal visit to Canada and a planned public interview aimed at addressing the Canadian public directly, would voice her own opinion on such an important issue is an obviously deliberate attempt to obscure and obstruct the real motivation behind the Harper polices on International maternal health.
"This is a discussion that is ongoing. There are other options that are out there [and] they'll be looked at." Cannon.
You-betcha other options will be looked at.
And Cannon, if you want to get some idea of what these other options are, how about reviewing Canada's polices for the last 25 years. Ignatieff and the other opposition parties' statements is must reading. And, if you intent to persist in disenfranchising 2/3rds of the Canadian people on this issue and impose the views of a small group of right wing extremists, try reading some of the policy position of the other G8 countries.
Or, to keep in short and simple for you, Harper and all the Con's, Hillary pretty much has summed them up in her formal statement to the Canadian people.
Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html