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 Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:54 pm Bush thanks Canadians for post-9/11 help |
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Bush thanks Canadians for post-9/11 help
President: 'Our two peoples are one family'
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday said that the United States and Canada share a special kinship and thanked Canadians for the hospitality they showed thousands of American travelers in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
"Thank you for your kindness to America in an hour of need," Bush told an audience in Halifax.
"Our two peoples are one family and always will be," he said.
After the attacks, about 33,000 travelers were stranded in Canada when the United States closed its airspace.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin described the hospitality of residents, who offered passengers their homes, and in many cases their beds, and scrambled to provide meals and showers.
"That's what neighbors do, that's what friends do," Martin said.
Bush was greeted with warm applause and thanked the crowd for their kindness after the attacks.
"For days after September 11, Canadians came to the aid of men and women and children who were worried and confused and had nowhere to sleep," he said, adding that they asked for nothing in return.
On Tuesday, Bush dismissed concerns about strained ties between the United States and Canada, thanking those Canadians who turned out to wave "with all five fingers" during his first official visit.
Bush said he understood that many Canadians opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 but added, "I'm the kind of fellow who does what he thinks is right and will continue to do what I think is right."
Bush and Martin said Tuesday that they agreed to work "in a practical way toward common goals," including tightening border security and resolving trade disputes.
But Martin expressed frustration with a continuing U.S. ban on Canadian cattle, imposed after a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washington state in 2003, and the dispute over a 27 percent tariff the Bush administration imposed on Canadian softwood lumber imports in 2001.
On the cattle issue, Martin said scientific tests have "clearly demonstrated that a decision should be taken, and a favorable decision to Canada should be taken as quickly as possible."
"This has been studied to death," he said.
Bush said he understood Martin's frustration but that U.S. law requires the White House Office of Management and Budget to review proposed Agriculture Department regulations before his administration can lift the ban.
"I fully understand the cattle business. I understand the pressures placed upon Canadian ranchers," he said. But he noted, "There's a bureaucracy involved. I readily concede we've got one."
Asked about polls that suggested U.S. and Canadian public opinion drifting apart on major issues such as the war in Iraq, Bush said he hadn't seen those surveys. But he added, "We just had a poll in our country when people decided that the foreign policy of the Bush administration ought to stay in place for four more years."
"It's a foreign policy that works with our neighbors. Trade between our countries has never been stronger," he said. "But it's a foreign policy that also understands that we've got an obligation to defend our security."
Addressing another international issue, Bush called Iran's recent decision to suspend its uranium enrichment program temporarily a good first step, but he said the United States wants to see a permanent halt to the program. (Full story)
Bush said he received a "very warm and hospitable" welcome in Ottawa.
But outside the news conference, a large crowd of demonstrators engaged in shoving matches with police and waved signs calling Bush an "international terrorist" and demanding he end "the massacre in Iraq." Others bluntly said, "Go home." (Full story)
Bush had planned to visit Canada in 2003, but the trip was scrubbed after then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to contribute troops to the invasion of Iraq.
Both countries said Iraq was not a factor in the decision to cancel the trip, but it was not rescheduled until Chretien retired in December.
Further aggravating the situation were critical comments from Chretien's spokesman, who called Bush a "moron," and a member of Parliament from the prime minister's center-left Liberal Party, who cursed Americans.
The spokesman was fired, but the Parliament member, Carolyn Parrish, was re-elected to her suburban Toronto, Ontario, seat in June. She has continued her criticism, telling reporters after Bush's re-election that the results showed Americans were "completely out of step" with the rest of the world.
The Liberal Party, now led by Martin, kicked Parrish out of its parliamentary caucus this month after she was shown stomping on a Bush doll during a television spoof.
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| Quote: | "Thank you for your kindness to America in an hour of need," Bush told an audience in Halifax.
"Our two peoples are one family and always will be," he said.
After the attacks, about 33,000 travelers were stranded in Canada when the United States closed its airspace.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin described the hospitality of residents, who offered passengers their homes, and in many cases their beds, and scrambled to provide meals and showers.
"That's what neighbors do, that's what friends do," Martin said. |
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Republican_Man
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:56 pm |
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| Quote: | | On Tuesday, Bush dismissed concerns about strained ties between the United States and Canada, thanking those Canadians who turned out to wave "with all five fingers" during his first official visit. |
I caught humor there, but yeah. It was a good visit. But people are now complaining about the fact that he wouldn't speak to Parliament, and he has no reason to.
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Superman
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:57 pm |
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That news article made me smile. Thanks for posting it.
| Quote: | | "Our two peoples are one family and always will be," he said. |
Exactly what I've said for years. There are no borders in the world, ordinary people should unite to combat evil and tackle problems. At the end of the day, we're just one world.
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:58 pm |
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^Yeah, but that's not what Ann Coulter was saying  She was saying last night on H & C on FOX News about the Parliament deal that the Canadians are "lucky that we allow them to live on the same continent as us."
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Superman
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I see. Please excuse my ignorance, who is Ann Coulter?
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Curtis
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| Starfleet Dentist wrote: | | I see. Please excuse my ignorance, who is Ann Coulter? |
 Hope you aren't asking me  . Cause I'm just as ignorant then.
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:08 pm |
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'bout time Georgy.
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Puck
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 7:18 pm |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | ^Yeah, but that's not what Ann Coulter was saying She was saying last night on H & C on FOX News about the Parliament deal that the Canadians are "lucky that we allow them to live on the same continent as us." |
Stupid woman. They are our allies after all and they are neighbors  . We should be thankful that we share the continent with them considering:
| Quote: | the hospitality of residents, who offered passengers their homes, and in many cases their beds, and scrambled to provide meals and showers.[regarding US citizens stranded in Canada on September 11]
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Clearly we don't agree on a number of issues, but clearly shows that we are friends and trumps any existing negativity between us.
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Curtis
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:04 pm |
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| Defiant wrote: | | 'bout time Georgy. |
Huh? You talkin' to me?
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Arellia
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:19 pm |
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| Starfleet Dentist wrote: | | I see. Please excuse my ignorance, who is Ann Coulter? |
Ann Coulter is a conservative political commentator.
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Republican_Man
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| Exalya wrote: | | Starfleet Dentist wrote: | | I see. Please excuse my ignorance, who is Ann Coulter? |
Ann Coulter is a conservative political commentator. |
Yes. And one of the most radical. Right up there with Savage, just in a different way.
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Exalya wrote: | | Starfleet Dentist wrote: | | I see. Please excuse my ignorance, who is Ann Coulter? |
Ann Coulter is a conservative political commentator. |
Yes. And one of the most radical. Right up there with Savage, just in a different way. |
You don't say? Huh. I need to listen to her sometime.
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They're not radical, they're just not afraid to say what the rest of us think.
Though I do disagree with Coultier on this one.
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| Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:28 pm |
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| LightningBoy wrote: | They're not radical, they're just not afraid to say what the rest of us think.
Though I do disagree with Coultier on this one. |
Well, no, I disagree. They ARE radical Republicans, and that's the truth. I'm not afraid of what everyone thinks, but I'm not radical.
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