Yeowch!

It's no-rhetorical-holds-barred as former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy writes an open letter to Condoleeza Rice about her recent tantrum-related decisions cancelling visits to Canada (and then rescheduling them later, etc.):

I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

But, gosh, we folks above the 49th parallel are somewhat cautious types who can't quite see laying down billions of dollars in a three-dud poker game.
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Coming to Ottawa might also expose you to a parliamentary system that has a thing called question period every day, where those in the executive are held accountable by an opposition for their actions, and where demands for public debate on important topics such as missile defence can be made openly.

Wow! I don't think there are even many wacky tabloid editorialists in this country who would sling the verbiage that freely. Could it be that our peace-loving northern friends are self-righteously pissed?!

(It does calm down as it goes along, but is making no bones about the need to "speak truth to power." If only power were interested!)

(via boing boing, of all places)