What type of decriminalized pot is PM Martin smoking?
...Prime Minister Paul Martin is insisting that United States seek permission before firing any missiles over Canada. "We would expect to be consulted. This is our airspace, we're a sovereign nation and you don't intrude on a sovereign nation's airspace without seeking permission."
If such a circumstance were to come to pass the consultation the Canadians will get is, by the way we launched an anti-missile over Northern Canada about a half hour ago. The nuke landed somewhere in Northern Newfoundland. No, no, don't get up. We've already sent a retrieval team out to get it. We only had to violate your water territory and, oh yeah, your airspace..again, to do so. Good thing it wasn't pointed at Toronto or it might have truly been the "big smoke".
Or something to that effect. In diplomat speak it is:
..."We will deploy. We will defend North America," said Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
"We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty - its seat at the table - to decide what to do about a missile that might be coming towards Canada."
Canadians might not worry about being targets of a missile launch but, Cellucci noted, anything fired at the United States could very well pass over its northern neighbour.
"I personally don't think it's in Canada's sovereign interest to be outside of the room when a decision is made about a missile that might be incoming towards Canada," the ambassador has said.
Nice. To add insult to injury, a political scientist at McMaster was interviewed on the Roy Green show yesterday. He figures that by June we will have an election and that the Liberals will squeak out a small majority.
