An introduction to Stockwell Day, quoted by Savage Washington, emphasis mine :
“I was struck back in 2003 after doing a briefing with some people in the Administration. It had been a rough year. We were getting ready to go to Iraq. Canada-US relations were somewhat strained by that. At the end of the briefing — which had been a little bit grim — about how Canada and the US could work together better in this war on terror that we were facing, the person I was was briefing paused and said to me, ‘Chris, where are all the good Canadians?’ When he said that it broke a little bit of my heart, because I’m an American but I love the Canadians. I think what he meant by that was ‘Where are the Canadians of World War I and World War II, that people understood to be… even when Europeans didn’t, those allies we had come to count on.’ Well, I have good news. Our speaker today is one of the good Canadians…”
I am not an expert introducer, but I suspect that when making beefs about Canada’s reluctance to go into war that it is mostly inadvisable to cite examples where the United States was the one wearing the reluctant hat.
Fellow Travellers 
January 19th, 2007 
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