Canada Firm and Fast Friends..

[Emancipation 2]

Canada and the United States have a "shared destiny" in expanding free trade, maintaining security and combating the growing threat of climate change, presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain told a business audience in Ottawa on Friday.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain is seeking to emphasize his support for free trade during his visit to Canada while also highlighting his differences with presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama.Republican presidential candidate John McCain is seeking to emphasize his support for free trade during his visit to Canada while also highlighting his differences with presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)In a speech to the Economic Club of Canada, McCain burnished his credentials as a supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), while emphasizing his differences with Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on the 15-year-old pact.

"The best American statesmen have always understood that Canada is not some adjunct to America," McCain told the audience. "We are firm and fast friends. We are allies, partners in success and adversity alike, and a great deal depends on preserving that unity.

"What a blessing it is for the United States to have in Canada a neighbour we fear only on ice rinks and baseball diamonds."

The Arizona senator has been fiercely critical of his Democratic rival for saying he would renegotiate some aspects of NAFTA if elected.

"Even now, for all the successes of NAFTA, we have to defend it without equivocation in political debate, because it is critical to the future of so many Canadian and American workers and businesses," he said. "Demanding unilateral changes and threatening to abrogate an agreement that has increased trade and prosperity is nothing more than retreating behind protectionist walls."

During his address, McCain also praised Canada's leaders — past and present — for doing the "hard work" in the 1990s to restore fiscal balance, saying a "prosperous Canada means a more dynamic and resilient American economy."

He added he witnessed Canadians' generosity toward the U.S. in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington when he visited Canada three days later.

"We in America have not forgotten your kindness," he said. "And we will never forget the solidarity, compassion and friendship of Canada when it mattered most."........................

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/20/...#socialcomments

*sigh.. perhaps this nightmare might almost be over??

[Reba 2]

At least McCain seems to aknowledge Canada a little better than Bush ever did.

I still think Carson from ####### Eye for the Straight Guy should run for prez.

[Krikit 1,164]

I'm quite impressed that McCain said all that. He's still a Republican, though, so he needs to go. lol

[Emancipation 2]

I'm quite impressed that McCain said all that. He's still a Republican, though, so he needs to go. lol

tee hee..

My husband the Republican doesn't really think he's a true republican.. he says Macain's too good of a friend of Hillary's for that

Edited June 22, 2008 by Emancipation

[Eric_and_Corinna 0]

I'm quite impressed that McCain said all that. He's still a Republican, though, so he needs to go. lol

Yup