As I noted here on Wednesday, when Foreign Affairs minister Peter Mackay was confronted with the insulting Republican National Committee's ad that was running in Tennessee, he chose to do absolutely nothing about it and instead blustered about improved relations between Canada and the US since the Tories have taken office. MacKay's do-nothing stance on the ad was trumped by Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador to Washington, who has now filed a formal complaint.That ad has now been pulled, not because of Wilson's complaint on behalf of the Conservatives - which was too little too late - but because it simply ran its course and it has now been replaced by another disgusting ad (par for the course for the GOP). At least this one doesn't mention Canada.
There's enough ignorance in the US about Canada (Google 'Talking to Americans") and we sure don't need to be seeing RNC ads adding to that fact. Someone should send RNC chair (and shameless weasle) Ken Mehlman the pictures of all of our soldiers who have died in Afghanistan so he and whichever 527 group that produced that ad can wake up and smell their allies' contributions. While they're at it, they should send copies to our so-called Foreign Affairs minister MacKay, who places cozying up to the Bush administration above Canada's interests.
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