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anti-american ambassador Frank McKenna not fit for Prime Minister's Job

By Judi McLeod
Wednesday, October 5, 2005

The more I see of Liberal Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe, the more I like him. as a replacement, that is, for "Mr. Dithers" Prime Minister Paul Martin.

and when a Liberal insider recently told me that Volpe and Frank McKenna, Canada's ambassador to Washington, are considered the top two contenders to replace Martin for the Liberal leadership, Joe started to look like good prime minister material to me.

I prefer Volpe to McKenna, even though Volpe's top dog of a Canadian Immigration Department that last May chose to deport back to Colombia, my common law husband of eight years after 16 years of hard work in Canada, supporting his two sons in Colombia as a construction labourer.

The new Immigration Minister, who has been known to shoot from the lip, only costs himself the support of other Liberal MPs. McKenna, who's been shooting from the lip ever since arriving in Washington, could cost ordinary Canadian citizens significant money.

Spewing his anti-american sentiment at a time when softwood lumber is on the trade table makes McKenna a serious threat to the Canadian economy.

along with his golf clubs, the former Liberal Premier of New Brunswick moved partisan politics into the ambassadorial official residence in Washington, D.C.

Handpicked for the job by Prime Minister Paul Martin--the same guy whose job he now seems to covet--McKenna is showing a bias that is unbecoming to the promised diplomacy that comes along with being Canadian ambassador to Washington.

Martin must have given the same attention to his colleague's resume as he did the recent Liberal adscam brouhaha until Her Majesty's Royal Opposition began calling for his hide.

In his latest speech, delivered at a downtown business luncheon in front of the media, and with the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins in the audience, McKenna claimed that the system of government in the United States of america is "dysfunctional".

This from a guy, who is a member of the same government caught with hands up to their elbows in the multi-million dollar sponsorship scandal, final report of which will not be tabled until May.

Stifling taxes like the Liberal's infamous GST are imposed at will on the unsuspecting Canadian people by ivory towers in Ottawa.

american tax increases are not at the discretion of the american president but must get by not one but two nitpicking finance committees (Ways and Means in the House of Representatives and appropriations in the Senate).

That's real dysfunctional to McKenna and his ilk.

If only the Canadian system had been that dysfunctional when adscam was coming down the pike.

With the wide sweeping statements of the average crass politician, McKenna admitted in his "they're dysfunctional" speech that the United States is a "wonderful creation" and its Constitution a "spectacular thing".

Mighty white of Frank to admit to what was recorded long ago in history tomes and to something that patriotic american live their daily lives by.

Did McKenna think it would stick when he tried to characterize the U.S. Congress as "like having 535 Carolyn Parrishes in one place", reminding all of the Mississauga MP supposedly ejected from the Liberal caucus for trampling a George W. Bush doll with an elegantly booted foot?

Supposedly because Parrish, who trampled the Bush doll and is the self-admitted source of the comment: "Damn americans...hate those bastards" was sent packing not because of her appalling anti-american publicity stunts--but only because it was understood that she had challenged boss man Paul Martin.

That McKenna would liken U.S. congress to "535 Carolyn Parrishes in one place" and in so doing resurrect the shameless Mississauga MP, rumoured to be running as Mississauga mayor in November 2006, shows his true hand—a green hand working at a job he shouldn't have.

The exalted position of Canadian ambassador to Washington leans heavily on something called diplomacy, of which Frank McKenna is bereft.

as a former provincial premier, McKenna has a politician's firm grasp on what is de rigueur.

When he dares to speak for all Canadians, he forgets that many in the masses he represents wish their nation had more of their next-door neighbour's democracy, warts and all.

McKenna, a member of the privileged Privy Council, which rather than Parliament really runs the Land of the Maple Leaf, has an agenda at play.

any agenda that is anti-american and pro-United Nations is a dangerous one for Canada.

That's why Joe Volpe would be the better man to replace the dithering Paul Martin.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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