Biden is well respected and understands international issues but he is not Canada's friend when it comes to NAFTA.
Here is an aside in a CP newstory (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080823/national/democrats_canada ):
On Canada-U.S. trade issues, however, a more protectionist Obama-Biden presidency could spell trouble for Canadian exporters.
While the 65-year-old Biden supported NAFTA in the 1990s, he now agrees with Obama that the trade pact needs to be amended.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, on the other hand, supports NAFTA and is a strong free-trader.
"The idea that we are not willing to take the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico to the mat to make this agreement work is just a lack of presidential leadership," Biden said during his own short-lived presidential run last summer.
"I would change it."
Now, in truth, Canada has a good hand to play in a renegotiation of NAFTA but renegotiations are unpredictable.
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Very interesting.
Read this,
"Middle Eastern males now make up 45,000 of the 90,000 inmates in French prisons."
Can you believe that?
If you don't, read the following link.
http://quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=581
Morton, is it acceptable that over half of the prison population in France is middle eastern muslims?
How long before that comes to Canada?
How many Canadians have been killed by muslims?
All great questions and I am waiting to hear your thoughful answer.
I think Biden's comments only reflect the growing rift between the Dems and the Harper gov. In courting only a narrow ideological strand in the U.S. and taking shots at the up and comers Harper's people have put themselves on poor footing, and it very well may come to haunt them.
http://castorrouge.blogspot.com/2008/08/top-obama-adviser-canada-us-relations.html
Jonathon,
The link is interesting but a bit dated -- January 2004. If you have anything more recent I'd blog it, assuming it's a credible source. I don't know anything about Quadrant but the website looks legit.
james
In the first ever sociological study of Islam in French prisons, Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), estimated that between 50% and 80% of French inmates are Muslims [3]. That number must be contrasted with France's overall Muslim population, which is 7-8%.
This was dated from 2006 and heres the link,
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?issue_id=3815
It's unreal how the MSM in Canada can ignore something so tragic.
Get back to me,
Cheers.
J.
Here is some more interesting numbers,
In Britain, 11 percent of prisoners are Muslim in contrast to about 3 percent of all inhabitants, according to the Justice Ministry. Research by the Open Society Institute, an advocacy organization, shows that in the Netherlands 20 percent of adult prisoners and 26 percent of all juvenile offenders are Muslim; the country is about 5.5 percent Muslim. In Belgium, Muslims from Morocco and Turkey make up at least 16 percent of the prison population, compared with 2 percent of the general populace, the research found.
The link,http://www.parapundit.com/archives/005175.html is dated May 2008.
Morton, you would have to agree that it's very serious that muslims are in jails in such large numbers when they are small percentages of a certain country.
Is this furthre proof that muslims are causing more trouble and that the cost/benefit analysis is clearly one sided?
Interested to hear your take on this critical issue.
On the Protectionist U.S thing, Canada has the U.S by the grapes if they really want to get dirty. Assuming our government has the willingness to stand up to them, and on that Muslim's in Prison topic, their probably wouldn't be so many if they didn't attack anyone who entered "their" neighbourhoods that didn't belong....I was surprised when I was in France at the amount of no go zones.
These are newer pages but I still want the underlying stuff -- where the numbers come from. That said, it is shocking. The massive over representation of Muslims in French jails certainly means something -- as does the number of First Nations in Canadian jails .
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