I doubt this will cause the same reaction as his last speech, but it may add fuel to the fire. U.S. soldiers being killed in Iraq while Canada stands by: U.S. ambassador.
Archive for April 20th, 2003
More Canadians heading to the Gulf
The government’s position is becoming even more bizarre, if that’s possible. The Globe and Mail reports that More Canadian officers may be heading to the Gulf as part of the US exchange programs we in which we participate.
Chretien says that although 31 Canadian officers are waging war alongside U.S. and British forces in the Persian Gulf area, “that does not mean that we are participating in the war.”
Angry denunciations and heckling ensue in Question Period.
Stephen Harper:
A real leader does not put his troops in the field and then wash his hands of their cause.
and
This clown [Mr. McCallum] gets up and makes these ridiculous defences about how you can have troops in the field and they’re not your responsibility and somehow you’re not part of the war.
and
Any minister who has any integrity would resign from a position that [meant] he was forced to parrot lines that stupid in front of the Canadian public.
Mild mannered John McCallum responds “Once again opposition members are scoring cheap political points on the backs of the brave men and women of the Canadian Forces”.
Unfortunately for McCallum, Harper got the better of him. Furthermore, I think credibility, leadership, and foreign relations are shaping up to be an election issue. The Liberals have no credibility so long as they insist we’re not participating in the war, but send our men to fight.
Microsoft: “We see voice increasingly as a disruptive technology.”
Microsoft Bets on .NET-based VoIP. The software giant unveils a new Windows CE .NET-based Voice over IP solution, betting that VoIP is a disruptive technology that will find its way into all manner of devices. [Internet Product News]
This has been on the horizon for a long time. In 1995 we hotly debated VoIP on the Windows team. The group working on VoIP as part of Netmeeting ended up in the media organization. The standards folks ended up working for Jawad Khaki in networking organization. Today, the largest contingent of folks at VON is from Microsoft.
The VoIP tornado appears to be gaining momentum.
Just got this in email… along with a 2 byte file titled update366.exe. Disguising an invader as a patch is a clever idea.
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The Firestorm over Canada’s position continues.
The Globe and Mail is milking this story for all it can. In this morning’s Globe:
- Canadians hurl abuse at US hockey peewees. A busload of kids from outside Boston in Montreal during the height of the protests. Flag burnings, booing the US anthem and all the trimmings. It’s old news now, but the “angle” is the American kids reactions.
- Planet America has become a new place. Roy MacGregor talks about his email box, and American talk radio and the profound shift that has taken place there.
- We wish for a prosperous United States. Paul Knox questions whether the inevitable hardening of the border and anti-Canadian sentiment in the US will harm us more than the economic consequences of Bush’s tax cuts and military policy.
- You call this a foreign policy? Former Ontario Premier Mike Harris rips into the Chretien government over their handling of this. I agree with the sentiment of what he says. Some of his suggestions, in my opinion, deserve more scrutiny, and his writing smacks of partisanship at the expense of substance.
I don’t believe that most Canadians feel the way that the American media portrays us, nor do I believe that most Americans feel the way that our media has portrayed them. I’m not sure how long it will take this sentiment to die down, but it can’t go away soon enough for me.
Many pundits have opined that our economies are heavily intertwined, that Americans aren’t going to stop buying our oil, our wood. Fine, I say, but I work in the technology sector. American’s need our oil and wood, but they have lots of excellent technology. I came back to Canada, from the United States, to work for Canadian technology companies and to help develop the technology business in our country. Fat lot of good it will do us if there’s no market for our products.
