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Who's embarrassed now?

..."Let's embarrass the hell out of the Americans in front of other countries that they are attempting to negotiate with on new binational trade agreements," she said then.
Later, she added that the United States might find it difficult if Canada lets it be known that it is having trouble with the Americans on a number of trade fronts.
"They want to expand their markets and other countries are going to be leery if they see that America's best trading partner, closest neighbour, is saying, 'We're having problems getting the United States to respect this [free-trade] agreement.'
"I don't think that this would play very well for the Americans. Let's take it to their own backyard. Let's take it down into the States, into the districts of these U.S. senators and these representatives . . ." Ms. Jennings, a Quebec MP, made the comments at a Commons committee Tuesday.

Yeah, that will help border relations.

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